From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
sverre@rabbelier.nl, git@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
david@lang.hm, Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:09:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804172109.35027.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48078323.4010109@davidnewall.com>
On Thursday, 17 of April 2008, David Newall wrote:
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Interresting. Just be careful results are produced for the big picture
> > and not used to point fingers at individuals.
> >
>
> If there are individuals at whom a finger needs to be pointed, this
> system will highlight them, and fingers will (and should) be pointed.
> Contributors of poor-quality code need to be weeded-out.
Define poor quality.
> Finger-pointing, in these extreme cases, gives incentive to improve
> quality. It's a positive thing.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. Negative finger-pointing is never a good thing.
Also, it doesn't give any incentive to anyone. It only makes people feel bad
and finally discourages them from contributing anything.
If you want to give poeple incentives, reward them for doing things you'd like
them to do.
Thanks,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-17 19:10 UTC|newest]
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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
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 [this message]
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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