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SubjectRe: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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James  W. Laferriere writes:
> 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.
>
> Find . -name "*Some-Name*" -type f -print | xargs grep 'Some-Info'
> Hate answering with just one line of credible info , But .

The above would grep every file. It takes 1 minute and 9.5 seconds.
So the distributed maintainer information does not scale well at all.

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