Buried alive in reporters

55 points by datashovel 8 years ago | 5 comments

mgurlitz 8 years 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

scintill76 8 years ago |

Should probaby link to the exact commit. Otherwise future commits will make the highlighted line number incorrect: 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 8 years ago | |

Wow! thanks for this hint. I've always done it via a long process of ~5 clicks.

venning 8 years ago |

The "S:" means "Status": https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2993b8c6143d8a57937...

djsumdog 8 years 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.