Re: Crediting test authors

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

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.

I just list the test that discovered the bug and which was cleared by
the commit, and assume that the test author will get credited in the
upstream test repository (e.g., such as generic/750 from fstests or
inotify02 from ltp).  So it's not something that I've worried about.

I suppose if the test repository isn't as well known, or if the test
hasn't been checked anywhere at all, your concern that the test author
should be credited is something I can understand.  But it hasn't come
up for me.

In other cases, if the commit hasn't been stable yet (say for kunit or
kselftests coming from some other tree), I'll just throw in a Link:
tag pointing at lore.kernel.org.

						- Ted