linux-kernel - Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

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Message-ID: <20080415045541.GA611@1wt.eu>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:55:42 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jmorris@...ei.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, david@...g.hm, sclark46@...thlink.net,
	johnpol@....mipt.ru, rjw@...k.pl, tilman@...p.cc,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, lkml@....ca, jesper.juhl@...il.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, git@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:05:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:01:05 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:54:00 +1000 (EST)
> > 
> > > - Things like "who made the kernel" statistics and related articles ignore 
> > >   code review.
> > 
> > Note the apparent irony in that the person who ends up often on the
> > top of those lists, Al Viro, is also someone who also does a
> > significant amount of code review.
> > 
> > I think this is no accident.
> 
> "who made the kernel" was an interesting and useful exercise, but if you
> like irony then...
> 
> - The way to boost your commit count is to submit buggy patches and to
>   then fix your own bugs.
> 
> - The way to lower your commit count is to fix things in other people's
>   patches, then fold your fix into the base patch.  I've lost over 1000
>   commits that way.  Unless they are counting '^    [akpm' as a commit.

And if Dave speaks about these stats : http://lwn.net/Articles/237768/
then Al does not even appear in it, which proves your point.

Willy

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