Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system | Date | Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:33:53 -0400 (EDT) |
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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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