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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:25:13 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.13
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On Mon, 29 August 2005 22:17:30 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 20:57, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:17 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Paul Mackerras:
> > >   Remove race between con_open and con_close
> > 
> > Hey, I'm the first to report this with the fix and Paul gets the credit?
> > I guess I'll crawl back to my little world (RT) where they actually
> > appreciate me. :-(
> 
> Did you report it or fix it? :>

Doesn't really matter to me.  A good bug report is often 90% of the
work, with the actual fix falling into the misc. category.  Testers
really deserve some credit.  ;)

Ok, many bug reports are also quite useless.  Good testers therefore
deserve even more credit.

Jörn

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The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of
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humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. 
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