From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk" Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:54:18 +0200 Message-ID: <517f3f820804150254w491cdf85s28f1d15696db8d96@mail.gmail.com> References: <47FEADCB.7070104@rtr.ca> <20080413205406.GA9190@2ka.mipt.ru> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "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" , jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "David Newall" Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:40604 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757832AbYDOJyT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:54:19 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so1934409fgb.17 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:54:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4804765B.2070300@davidnewall.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 4/15/08, David Newall wrote: > James Morris wrote: > > I don't know how to solve this, but suspect that encouraging the use of > > reviewed-by and also including it in things like analysis of who is > > contributing, selection for kernel summit invitations etc. would be a > > start. At least, better than nothing. > > Would it be hard to keep count of the number of errors introduced by > author and reviewer? I've found quite a few errors in kernel-userland APIs, but I'm not sure that this sort of negative statistic would be helpful -- e.g., more productive developers probably also introduce more errors. -- I'll likely only see replies if they are CCed to mtk.manpages at gmail dot com