From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764576AbYEUV44 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 17:56:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761782AbYEUV4a (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 17:56:30 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:4752 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762094AbYEUV43 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 17:56:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 23:56:06 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Stefan Richter Cc: David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, gorcunov@gmail.com, tytso@mit.edu, hch@infradead.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20080521215606.GA32552@1wt.eu> References: <20080521104644.5b6f4e63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521185725.GD6932@cvg> <20080521123127.3b3b66af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521.131046.242739198.davem@davemloft.net> <20080521212547.GB6749@1wt.eu> <483497CA.7080604@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <483497CA.7080604@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:44:42PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > >If we want to get more manpower on bug hunting, we should really > >think about what type of work we need, and simply assign credit > >to people. > > People fix bugs when they realize that nobody else is going to do it for > them. That's partly true. But we don't need people to fix all bugs by themselves, otherwise we might take more time trying to fix their own fixes. We most of all need them to *work* on bugs, which is not the same. Actively participating to tests and bug hunting is a very important activity. Let's get the original code author propose a fix once the bug is pointed to. Willy