Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>]

On 12-05-08 19:27, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> 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.

Ingo Molnar recently already used the latter:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121032355203154&w=4

and a reply of mine consisted of now also needing a Reported-By:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121037403515110&w=4

I must say the Bisected-by thing did feel a bit childish ("ah, I'm not 
in it to get the bug fixed but to get my name mentioned!") but hey, I 
find things to be offended over easily. From the example it does seem 
you probably want both if you have one; if reporter, nailer-downer and 
fixer are three seperate people.

Rene.