Re: Crediting test authors

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:38:28 -0700 dan.j.williams@intel.com wrote:
> Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > 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?  
> 
> Is that not a "credit in the changelog" situation?
> 
> "Big thanks to DeveloperX for their recent TestY added with CommitZ for
>  catching this case."

That's what we do usually, but I'm a strong believer in (LWN) statistics
to help people justify the work they do upstream. Feels even more
important for testing than feature development in a way.

So a tag would be ideal. But it's a hard nut to crack. Best I can come
up with would be:

Reproducer: test.case.path # 001122aabb (optimal) commit of the test case

? Could potentially be useful for backporters?

> Reported-by: Some CI Bot

I guess we'd need something like:

Reported-by: subsystem CI # Person Who <developed@the.test> ?