From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:05:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20080414160513.9f57e5ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080413232441.e216a02c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414072328.GW9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080414.150105.101568769.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jmorris@namei.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, w@1wt.eu, david@lang.hm, sclark46@earthlink.net, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, rjw@sisk.pl, tilman@imap.cc, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, lkml@rtr.ca, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080414.150105.101568769.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:01:05 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: James Morris > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:54:00 +1000 (EST) > > > - Things like "who made the kernel" statistics and related articles ignore > > code review. > > Note the apparent irony in that the person who ends up often on the > top of those lists, Al Viro, is also someone who also does a > significant amount of code review. > > I think this is no accident. "who made the kernel" was an interesting and useful exercise, but if you like irony then... - The way to boost your commit count is to submit buggy patches and to then fix your own bugs. - The way to lower your commit count is to fix things in other people's patches, then fold your fix into the base patch. I've lost over 1000 commits that way. Unless they are counting '^ [akpm' as a commit.