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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:28:01 +0600 (LKT)
From: Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@gnu.org>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> Eric S. Raymond writes:
> 
> > This is a proposal for an attribution metadata system in the Linux
> > kernel sources.  The goal of the system is to make it easy for
> > people reading any given piece of code to identify the responsible
> > maintainer.  The motivation for this proposal is that the present
> > system, a single top-level MAINTAINERS file, doesn't seem to be
> > scaling well.
> 
> It is nice to have a single file for grep. With the proposed
> changes one would sometimes need to grep every file.

What about

grep `find . -name "MAINTAINERS"`

Anuradha