From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759864AbYEMPJf (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 11:09:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756215AbYEMPJP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 11:09:15 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.201]:58083 "EHLO smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755443AbYEMPJO (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 11:09:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4829AF7B.6040601@keyaccess.nl> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:10:51 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Corbet CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters References: <4388.1210613272@vena.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <4388.1210613272@vena.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > 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.