linux-kernel - Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

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Message-ID: <9a8748490804161417n4ad6c1den54ccd302831a66c6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:17:14 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	sverre@...belier.nl
Cc:	git@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"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>,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David Newall" <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

On 16/04/2008, Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@...il.com> wrote:
...
>  Git is participating in Google Summer of Code this year and I've
>  proposed to write a 'git statistics' command. This command would allow
>  the user to gather data about a repository, ranging from "how active
>  is dev x" to "what did x work on in the last 3 weeks". It's main
>  feature however, would be an algorithm that ranks commits as being
>  either 'buggy', 'bugfix' or 'enhancement'.

Interresting. Just be careful results are produced for the big picture
and not used to point fingers at individuals.

>(There are several clues
>  that can aid in determining this, a commit msg along the lines of
>  "fixes ..." being the most obvious.)

One thing I thought of is that the more "Acked-by", "Reviewed-by" and
"Signed-off-by" lines a patch has, the better reviewed we can probably
assume it to be and thus the probability of it having introduced a bug
probably drops slightly compared to other less-reviewed patches... or
maybe not, but at least it's something to think about :-)


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