From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758012AbYELRsd (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 13:48:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756522AbYELRs0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 13:48:26 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:6250 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755886AbYELRsZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 13:48:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=LYmWpPOjw5excCObfDizpVhWhQIDbIv8HIQTfWaBrFdFyhC963KXjsczQ1I/BMIjCAWgr9OS6lCbzMy5tVBpXwdzRKlCGWy8YC4tIqIKRL4nkui1MAz4kGdSnl18A8OErNkY1wrzOMtMMjCaTdByFul8j5u2U9TXlWdMEDF8YmM= Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:48:13 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters Message-ID: <20080512174813.GD6913@cvg> References: <4388.1210613272@vena.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4388.1210613272@vena.lwn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [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 | | 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 -