From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755389AbYDQVCX (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:02:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753742AbYDQVCA (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:02:00 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.246]:13386 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753719AbYDQVB6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:01:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=HpICrzgancxrZ/8fRc2/zzU0LA6fpjyjDwyRB1qr2mgm9kMG4HxpwmN/3BfhIRgRbaZ6YPffdGUvoYK4CQWQNC3J2g9Nl9bBWy2GY/XNJubw2Jy69yxAmcu6YtVDlcCmBpZjTyoukY46Pc7+w9VEmOnOxynlPd7MQnv1oGfnglc= Message-ID: <2c0942db0804171401r2696884bq22540deaab40ef9b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:01:55 -0700 From: "Ray Lee" To: "Al Viro" Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "David Newall" , "Jesper Juhl" , sverre@rabbelier.nl, git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , "James Morris" , "Andrew Morton" , "Willy Tarreau" , david@lang.hm, "Stephen Clark" , "Evgeniy Polyakov" , "Tilman Schmidt" , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, "Mark Lord" , "David Miller" , yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080417205301.GG27459@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47FEADCB.7070104@rtr.ca> <9a8748490804161417n4ad6c1den54ccd302831a66c6@mail.gmail.com> <48078323.4010109@davidnewall.com> <200804172109.35027.rjw@sisk.pl> <2c0942db0804171235o49238b99u6cdbd3e5c8d6ebb7@mail.gmail.com> <20080417201657.GF27459@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <2c0942db0804171338p7bc7d9f2u8079c2f8c8998e76@mail.gmail.com> <20080417205301.GG27459@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> X-Google-Sender-Auth: de53ac6975b019b4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Al Viro wrote: > 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). Ah, I failed reading comprehension, yet again. Well, sounds like you have a beef to take up with David, then. That's still not an argument against trying to gather statistics and to see if they're worth anything. > > 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... Momentarily amusing to think so, but no :-).