Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:39:17 -0400 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: > 99.9999% of problems don't involve querying the set of maintainers of > Confg.in files. The system is optimised to the general case of queries people > need to make. It also happens to be accessible to people who are not > kernel gurus because it uses roughly English terms for the maintainership > and area. > > The .0001% case isnt interesting. Thats the difference between real world > systems and theory.
Again with due respect, you haven't gotten it yet. In fact, you've got it exactly backwards. Unsurprising -- you're so magnificently well adapted to the way things are that certain limiting assumptions of the system you operate in have become invisible to you.
What you call a rare case is rare not because it *should* be rare but because the work practices and social mechanisms of lkml combine to heavily discourage improvements that cross jurisdictional boundaries.
This is a *problem*. I won't belabor the point, because I am certain that you'll believe the conclusion more if you figure it out yourself than if I tell you. Hint: think about long-term coherency issues in large codebases. Think hard. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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