Re: Crediting test authors

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:39:12 +0100 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 08:00:23AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have ideas about crediting test authors or tests for bugs
> > discovered?  We increasingly see situations where someone adds a test
> > then our subsystem CI uncovers a (1 in a 100 runs) bug using that test.  
> 
> > Using reported-by doesn't feel right. But credit should go to the
> > person who wrote the test. Is anyone else having this dilemma?  
> 
> Usually I'd do a reported-by for whoever actually looked at the test
> system, triaged the issue and reported it.  Trying to credit test
> authorship separately to the testsuite gets cumbersome over time, tests
> get updated over time for a range of reasons (toolchain updates, adding
> more coverage, improvements in the testsuite's frameworks...) so it's
> often not just a single person.  Hopefully the testsuite is keeping
> track of things well enough so mentioning the test will point people in
> the right direction.

Ack, it does get murky overtime. Also with pre-commit testing there
usually wouldn't even be a bug in the tree to credit fixing. 

I guess we just had a lucky(?) string of very clear cut cases where
a good selftest led the maintainer noticing a crash in the CI, and 
fixing something.