Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:29:22 +0100 (BST)


> Another is to be able to generate reports on exactly how much of the kernel
> is in "Maintained" or "Supported" status. I think it would be worth
> making this change just so we could know that.

There is no correlation between claimed and actual levels of supportedness.
There are drivers with no-one supporting them that are common and thus get
fixed very rapidly for example.

I actually prefer MAINTAINERS because it breaks things down by area and reflects
the actual maintainership and areas covered. Something that per file does not

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