Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters

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

On 18-05-08 00:53, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:35:43AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> [Operating in delayed response mode, sorry...]
>>
>> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> In which format do you want data for commits already in 2.6.26?
>> I hadn't thought about trying to backfill data for existing commits;
>> that sounds like a fair amount of work for coverage which could still be
>> somewhat spotty.  If you have the data at hand, though, then a simple
>> file of the form
>>
>> 	commit-id  full-name <email>
> 
> How to indicate whether it's a Reported-by or a Bisected-by?

Literal Bisected-by might not make for a very good tag. Bisection is a 
way to pin down a bug; just one of them. So say person A reports and 
person B says "Hey, I know what that is. Try reverting foo." B then 
doesn't fit the tag while the only difference is that B was clever 
enough to not need a bisection. So if this is about giving credit; 
Tracked-down-by maybe? Something else?

Rene.