linux-kernel - Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

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Message-ID: <20080417205301.GG27459@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:53:01 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>, sverre@...belier.nl,
	git@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, david@...g.hm,
	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>,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:38:18PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> >         And frankly, that's the only thing that matters anyway; I suspect
> >  I'd do rather well by proposed criteria, but you know what?  I don't give
> >  a flying f*ck through the rolling doughnut for self-appointed PHBs and
> >  their idea of performance reviews.
> 
> (Geez, conflate the issue much?) No one is saying you should. But
> also, I haven't seen anyone saying it'd be used for performance
> reviews other than you.

|| If there are individuals at whom a finger needs to be pointed, this  
|| system will highlight them, and fingers will (and should) be pointed.
|| Contributors of poor-quality code need to be weeded-out.

in this thread (From: David Newall).

> <shrug> Shame and Guilt, two major motivators of human behavior, it's
> true. But, one last time, *you're* the one saying the stats would be
> used for finger pointing at people.

Not really.  Unless you are trying to imply that David is my sock puppet, that
is...
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