Re: Fw: Re: Past CREDITS files

From: Juha Siltala (juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 11:27:48 EST


On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:35:53 -0400
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:

(among other things):

> Policy on this clearly varies from maintainer to maintainer (and perhaps
> phase of the moon), so your idea will give data skewed at least by
> subsystem.

This is something I'd be interested in as well. When did Linus start to
give out the maintenance of certain parts of the kernel to others? Does
this coincide with the famous "Linus doesn't scale" debate that Glyn Moody
describes as the moment Linux almost forked? And was this very difficult?

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