linux-kernel - Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

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Message-ID: <bd6139dc0804161243i5e5c973aia0cf2d5ec19079fa@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:43:47 +0200
From:	"Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jmorris@...ei.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, w@....eu, david@...g.hm,
	sclark46@...thlink.net, johnpol@....mipt.ru, rjw@...k.pl,
	tilman@...p.cc, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, lkml@....ca,
	davem@...emloft.net, jesper.juhl@...il.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davidn@...idnewall.com
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  Sounds like an interesting project.

Thank you :).

>  Well yes.  One outcome of the project would be to tell us what changes we'd
>  need to make to our processes to make such data gathering more effective.

I defenitly agree here, the command's reliability could be increased
by always specifying bugfixes in a certain way. 'fixed-bug:' for
example should be very recognizable.

>  Of course, we may not actually implement such changes.  That would depend
>  upon how useful the output is to us.

Ah yes, free will and whatnot. Then again, everybody already does
'signed-off-by:', if there's an easy command in git to mark a bugfix,
it would increase the odds of people using it. Perhaps something like
'git commit -b 10256" which would then automagically append a
predefined message to the commit users would feel more inclined?

Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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