From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Newall Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:34:35 +0930 Message-ID: <48078323.4010109@davidnewall.com> References: <47FEADCB.7070104@rtr.ca> <48028830.6020703@earthlink.net> <20080414043939.GA6862@1wt.eu> <20080414053943.GU9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080413232441.e216a02c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414072328.GW9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <4804765B.2070300@davidnewall.com> <9a8748490804161417n4ad6c1den54ccd302831a66c6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sverre@rabbelier.nl, git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , James Morris , Al Viro , Andrew Morton , Willy Tarreau , david@lang.hm, Stephen Clark , Evgeniy Polyakov , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Tilman Schmidt , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Mark Lord , David Miller , yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jesper Juhl X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel-3=40m.gmane.org-S934897AbYDQRE7@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 17 19:21:01 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JmXYd-0006bw-IO for glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:06:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934897AbYDQRE7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:04:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933720AbYDQREd (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:04:33 -0400 Received: from eth7959.sa.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.82.22]:33522 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933614AbYDQREb (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:04:31 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.9] (ppp121-45-41-178.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [::ffff:121.45.41.178]) (AUTH: PLAIN davidn, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by hawking.rebel.net.au with esmtp; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:34:27 +0930 id 0039448E.4807831C.000063E3 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) In-Reply-To: <9a8748490804161417n4ad6c1den54ccd302831a66c6@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. Finger-pointing, in these extreme cases, gives incentive to improve quality. It's a positive thing.