Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

Carlo Wood
2007-06-17T19:34:46Z

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:18:17PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> where n is a number that needs to be determined (I think that n could be 3).
> Well, "negative comments" should also be defined more precisely. ;-)

I think that n should be a function of the number of accepted patches
that this person sent in before, and the number of regressions he
caused in the past.

Ie, new developers have to wait a considerable amount of time - while
experienced developers who never caused a regression should be able
to write patches that are immediately applied. Also, if anyone causes
a regression - that would lead to them having to wait longer the
next time before they can apply the patch - a good reason for a
developer to put extra time into making sure there are no regressions.

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Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>