Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU Code Audit Team

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 10.01.2012 14:22, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 01/10/2012 06:58 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Probably we need to attack the reviewing problem first: That I review
>> all block patches myself worked well as long as we were two or three
>> people in that area, but today it doesn't scale any more without
>> lowering the review standards - and I don't want to do that. Maybe we
>> should introduce something like "One Reviewed-by buys you two
>> Signed-off-bys for your own patches" ;-)
> 
> I think one thing that helps is to make sure for maintainers to include 
> Reviewed-bys in commits.  The script I use (below) takes a mbox with the full 
> thread and folks Reviewed-by/Tested-bys into the original patch spitting out an 
> mbox with just the patches and tags.
> 
> That way people are getting credit in git for doing reviews.  It's a small 
> incentive but every little bit helps.
> 
> http://git.codemonkey.ws/cgit/mbox-filter.git/

I usually do that, although manually.

Of the 487 patches I have committed, 71 have a Reviewed-by tag in the
commit message. Maybe I've missed to include it for some, but that's
about the ratio that feels realistic to me.

Kevin