From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934018AbYDQP1F (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:27:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760806AbYDQP0p (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:26:45 -0400 Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]:37276 "EHLO smtp4.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760255AbYDQP0o (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:26:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:26:33 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Andrew Morton , sverre@rabbelier.nl, git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, w@1wt.eu, david@lang.hm, sclark46@earthlink.net, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, rjw@sisk.pl, tilman@imap.cc, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, lkml@rtr.ca, davem@davemloft.net, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davidn@davidnewall.com Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Message-ID: <20080417152633.GA12951@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080414053943.GU9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080413232441.e216a02c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414072328.GW9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <4804765B.2070300@davidnewall.com> <20080416132634.GA545@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080416120247.c665859c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080416195503.GR1677@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080417135013.GA2017@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080417135013.GA2017@fieldses.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed