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Buried alive in reporters

• mgurlitz 9y ago
  This goes back to the original file where it read "buried alive in email" in 1996 [1]. It changed to "buried alive in diapers" [2] from 97-99 before this last revision [3]. 1: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v1.3/patch-html/patch-1.3.68/linux_MAINTAINERS.html 2: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.1/patch-html/patch-2.1.22/linux_MAINTAINERS.html 3: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.2/patch-html/patch-2.2.4/linux_MAINTAINERS.html
• djsumdog 9y ago
  Files like this just make you realize the massive effort that goes into open source projects like the Linux Kernel. Imagine all the people who work and maintain things like Libreoffice, Docker, FreeBSD's base, etc.
• venning 9y ago
  The "S:" means "Status": https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2993b8c6143d8a5793746a54eba8f86f95240f/MAINTAINERS#L84-L93 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2993b8c6143d8a57937...
• scintill76 9y ago
  Should probaby link to the exact commit. Otherwise future commits will make the highlighted line number incorrect: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2993b8c6143d8a5793746a54eba8f86f95240f/MAINTAINERS#L14195 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2993b8c6143d8a57937... (you can easily get this canonical URL by pressing 'y' on Github, and you can easily remind yourself of that by pressing '?')
  • daurnimator 9y ago
    Wow! thanks for this hint. I've always done it via a long process of ~5 clicks.