From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Newall Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:34:35 +0930 Message-ID: <48078323.4010109@davidnewall.com> References: <47FEADCB.7070104@rtr.ca> <48028830.6020703@earthlink.net> <20080414043939.GA6862@1wt.eu> <20080414053943.GU9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080413232441.e216a02c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414072328.GW9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <4804765B.2070300@davidnewall.com> <9a8748490804161417n4ad6c1den54ccd302831a66c6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sverre@rabbelier.nl, git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , James Morris , Al Viro , Andrew Morton , Willy Tarreau , david@lang.hm, Stephen Clark , Evgeniy Polyakov , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Tilman Schmidt , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Mark Lord , David Miller , yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jesper Juhl Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9a8748490804161417n4ad6c1den54ccd302831a66c6@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jesper Juhl wrote: > Interresting. Just be careful results are produced for the big picture > and not used to point fingers at individuals. > If there are individuals at whom a finger needs to be pointed, this system will highlight them, and fingers will (and should) be pointed. Contributors of poor-quality code need to be weeded-out. Finger-pointing, in these extreme cases, gives incentive to improve quality. It's a positive thing.