From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jmorris@namei.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, david@lang.hm,
sclark46@earthlink.net, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, rjw@sisk.pl,
tilman@imap.cc, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, lkml@rtr.ca,
jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:55:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080415045541.GA611@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080414160513.9f57e5ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:05:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:01:05 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> > From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:54:00 +1000 (EST)
> >
> > > - Things like "who made the kernel" statistics and related articles ignore
> > > code review.
> >
> > Note the apparent irony in that the person who ends up often on the
> > top of those lists, Al Viro, is also someone who also does a
> > significant amount of code review.
> >
> > I think this is no accident.
>
> "who made the kernel" was an interesting and useful exercise, but if you
> like irony then...
>
> - The way to boost your commit count is to submit buggy patches and to
> then fix your own bugs.
>
> - The way to lower your commit count is to fix things in other people's
> patches, then fold your fix into the base patch. I've lost over 1000
> commits that way. Unless they are counting '^ [akpm' as a commit.
And if Dave speaks about these stats : http://lwn.net/Articles/237768/
then Al does not even appear in it, which proves your point.
Willy
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2008-04-13 23:51 ` Reporting bugs and bisection david
2008-04-14 0:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-14 4:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-14 5:39 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 6:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 6:39 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 6:43 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 7:23 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 7:43 ` Al Viro
2008-04-14 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 8:30 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-14 9:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 5:25 ` Bill Fink
2008-04-14 10:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 10:41 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 17:35 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-04-14 12:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-14 14:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 17:51 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 18:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 19:30 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-04-14 15:54 ` James Morris
2008-04-14 22:01 ` David Miller
2008-04-14 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 4:55 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2008-04-15 13:18 ` Work WAS(Re: " jamal
2008-04-15 9:33 ` David Newall
2008-04-15 9:54 ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-04-15 14:04 ` David Newall
2008-04-15 20:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-16 2:34 ` David Newall
2008-04-16 3:53 ` david
2008-04-16 9:06 ` David Newall
2008-04-16 11:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-16 12:41 ` Stephen Clark
2008-04-16 4:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-16 12:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-16 12:15 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 13:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 19:02 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-16 19:43 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 19:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-17 13:50 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-04-17 15:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 19:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-04-16 20:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 19:39 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 20:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 20:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 21:05 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-16 21:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-16 20:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-16 20:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-16 21:17 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-04-17 17:04 ` David Newall
2008-04-17 19:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-17 19:35 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-17 19:57 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-17 20:16 ` Al Viro
2008-04-17 20:38 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-17 20:53 ` Al Viro
2008-04-17 21:01 ` Ray Lee
2008-04-14 19:13 ` Rene Herman
2008-04-14 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-14 22:18 ` Rene Herman
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