Re: Slow development cycle

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 21:13:03 EST


On 28-May-2000 James Sutherland wrote:
> I've just run through the MAINTAINERS file checking the "M:" entries, and
> 89 out of the 170 addresses listed haven't been used on linux-kernel this
> month.
>
> As a one-off, the time taken for each developer to confirm the address is
> valid is fairly trivial, but with a good enough script, we should be able
> to check most of the addresses fairly frequently. (For example, any
> address with Demon Internet of the form @user.demon.co.uk can be checked
> by looking for a DNS entry user.demon.co.uk.)
>
> Some addresses will always need manual confirmation, of course, but a
> mostly automated check could be quite useful, IMHO.

The addresses people post from are not necessarily the ones which they want to
get mail from. Or the address in CREDITS/MAINTAINERS may still work via
forward, but it may not be the most current one.

        J

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