linux-kernel - Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

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Message-ID: <517f3f820804150254w491cdf85s28f1d15696db8d96@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:54:18 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	"David Newall" <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc:	"James Morris" <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Al Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Willy Tarreau" <w@....eu>, david@...g.hm,
	"Stephen Clark" <sclark46@...thlink.net>,
	"Evgeniy Polyakov" <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Tilman Schmidt" <tilman@...p.cc>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	"Mark Lord" <lkml@....ca>, "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	jesper.juhl@...il.com, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

On 4/15/08, David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com> 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.

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