linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

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Message-ID: <20061201061958.GL11084@stusta.de>
Date:	Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:19:58 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>
Cc:	tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:00:35PM -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:

> I am curious, what's the point?

Email addresses are for contacting people.

> These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made,  what the author's email addresses
> were at that point.

For historical purposes, you can always use historical kernels.

> It's not MAINTAINERS. If people want to contact someone, go find the latest address there.

It's also MODULE_AUTHOR() and printk() which are far more user-visible 
than MAINTAINERS.

cu
Adrian

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