From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759030AbYELTLk (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 15:11:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756844AbYELTLc (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 15:11:32 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:40784 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753384AbYELTLb (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 15:11:31 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:11:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4388.1210613272@vena.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <4388.1210613272@vena.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805122111.36494.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday, 12 of May 2008, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Several members of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board recently > got together with Andrew Morton to talk about kernel quality issues. One > of the things which came out of that meeting was a desire to improve > incentives for people who report bugs. Clearly, actually fixing those bugs > would qualify; nobody has lost sight of that. But it was suggested that > the creation and publication of statistics on bug reporting would also > help. > > One way to do this might be for Andrew (being the only one who actually > reads every message posted on the list) to keep a spreadsheet along with > everything else he does. That idea did not go over very well. > > 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 > > 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 > further, perhaps we could add a Bisected-by: tag for really hard-core > helpers. > > If these tags go into the commit messages in any sort of consistent way, it > should be possible generate the usual sort of statistics from them. I'll > then happily publicize them next to the traditional lists of people who are > adding new bugs. The result will certainly be fame, fortune, and job > offers for the people at the top of the list. Or something like that. > > If the rest of the community is agreeable, it would be nice to make an > immediate start on this; it's not yet too late to get reasonable data for > the 2.6.26 kernel, and to have the habits well ingrained for 2.6.27. > > Thoughts? I like the idea. Thanks, Rafael