Re: [BUG] CREDITS or CREDITS-YOURSELVES

From: Jarek Poplawski
Date: Fri Nov 17 2006 - 02:45:36 EST


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:25:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > With great astonishment I've found none of
> > these "networking" names in the CREDITS file:
> > Stephen Hemminger, Thomas Graf, Alexey Kuznetsov,
> > Andrew Morton, Pedro Roque, Jamal Hadi Salim,
> > Herbert Xu etc.
>
> You should basically consider the CREDITS file to be legacy stuff from
> five+ years ago.

Should this explain Alexey case?

> For the last five years or so, you can find the real credits in the source
> control history. That didn't use to be true.

Probably CREDITS is more accessible and more often
read by users. And it seems to be updated quite
often also...

So maybe: NOT-REAL-CREDITS.

Jarek P.
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