linux-kernel - Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

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Message-ID: <20080417152633.GA12951@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:26:33 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, sverre@...belier.nl,
	git@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davidn@...idnewall.com
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:50:13AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:55:03PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > Sure, you will get some numbers, but if anyone would e.g. wrongly accuse 
> > me that 2% of my commits last year introduced bugs I would get 
> > ***really*** angry.
> 
> It's just an experiment; reasonable people won't take it as the final
> word.

Take e.g. [1] as an example how git statistics about the Linux kernel 
are already used to "prove" things that aren't true.

> --b.

cu
Adrian

[1] http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/11/lies-d-oh-forget-it/

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