linux-kernel - Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters

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Message-ID: <20080521104145.GB4948@ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 12:41:45 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters

Hi!

> So here's what we would like to try instead.  Whenever somebody sends up a
> patch fixing a reported bug, the name of the person who reported the bug
> would be immortalized with this tag:
> 
> 	Reported-by: A. Bug Reporter <email@...s.here>
> 
> In particular, reporters who work with the developers toward the resolution
> of the bug should be thanked in this way.  If we wanted to take things

I believe we have enough tags already. Plus, if the reporter really
works with the developer till the end, there's already accepter
Tested-by: flag, right?

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