linux-kernel - Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:36:33 +0930
From:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
To:	david@...g.hm
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Stephen Clark <sclark46@...thlink.net>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	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

david@...g.hm wrote:
> I'd rather have a developer/maintainer who introduces and fixed 100
> bug, but fixes them promptly,

And I'd rather be able to see that that person introduced 100 bugs than
to have no idea.  As has been said before, the current situation rewards
people for sloppy work.
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