linux-kernel - Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

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Message-Id: <200706180141.41101.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:41:41 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Sunday 17 June 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > We of course do want to minimise the amount of overhead for each
> > developer. I'm a strong believer in specialisation: rather than
> > requiring that *every* developer/maintainer integrate new steps in their
> > processes it would be better to allow them to proceed in a
> > close-to-usual fashion and to provide for a specialist person (or team)
> > to do the sorts of things which you're thinking about.
>
> Makes sense... however we need to educate each and every developer about
> importance of the code review and proper recognition of reviewers.

That's as easy to manage as is currently done with rc-regressions.

Maybe Adrian can introduce a "Patch Review Tacking" system akin to the his 
"rc-Regression Tracking" system.

Thanks!

--
Al

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