Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Jonathan Corbet - Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:27:52AM -0600]
| Several members of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board recently
| got together with Andrew Morton to talk about kernel quality issues.  One
| of the things which came out of that meeting was a desire to improve
| incentives for people who report bugs.  Clearly, actually fixing those bugs
| would qualify; nobody has lost sight of that.  But it was suggested that
| the creation and publication of statistics on bug reporting would also
| help.
| 
| One way to do this might be for Andrew (being the only one who actually
| reads every message posted on the list) to keep a spreadsheet along with
| everything else he does.  That idea did not go over very well.
| 
| So here's what we would like to try instead.  Whenever somebody sends up a
| patch fixing a reported bug, the name of the person who reported the bug
| would be immortalized with this tag:
| 
| 	Reported-by: A. Bug Reporter <email@goes.here>
| 
| In particular, reporters who work with the developers toward the resolution
| of the bug should be thanked in this way.  If we wanted to take things
| further, perhaps we could add a Bisected-by: tag for really hard-core
| helpers. 
| 
| If these tags go into the commit messages in any sort of consistent way, it
| should be possible generate the usual sort of statistics from them.  I'll
| then happily publicize them next to the traditional lists of people who are
| adding new bugs.  The result will certainly be fame, fortune, and job
| offers for the people at the top of the list.  Or something like that.
| 
| If the rest of the community is agreeable, it would be nice to make an
| immediate start on this; it's not yet too late to get reasonable data for
| the 2.6.26 kernel, and to have the habits well ingrained for 2.6.27.
| 
| Thoughts?
| 
| jon
| 

If my opinion does worth somehow - I'm absolutely agree!

(btw, it seems we forget the main tag ever was - Bug-made-by: ;)

		- Cyrill -