From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:55:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20080415045541.GA611@1wt.eu> References: <20080413232441.e216a02c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414072328.GW9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080414.150105.101568769.davem@davemloft.net> <20080414160513.9f57e5ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , jmorris@namei.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, 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: Andrew Morton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080414160513.9f57e5ba.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:05:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. And if Dave speaks about these stats : http://lwn.net/Articles/237768/ then Al does not even appear in it, which proves your point. Willy