From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>, "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:46:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020805210646w5eeaef22r2c3e88afa366f42b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6bv4w7o.fsf@saeurebad.de>
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> I would more argue to remove Tested-by completely because it does not
> tell much. Code is not bugfree just because someone compiled and ran
> it. And if it breaks on some other systems later on, what does it help
> if you know someone tested it? It still breaks. And you can not even
> blame the tester because of his luck of a working configuration.
Tested-by is really helpful for identifying potential testers when you
change some part of the kernel. I use git history to identify people
who are able/willing to test NUMA changes to the slab allocators that
require a big ass NUMA box to trigger a bug, for example. Also, in
some cases, testing a bug fix is not trivial and might require a lot
of work that we should give credit for.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-12 17:27 Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-12 17:48 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-12 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-12 20:52 ` David Miller
2008-05-12 21:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-13 10:51 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-13 10:50 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-13 16:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-12 20:54 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-05-12 21:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-12 21:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-12 18:27 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-12 19:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-05-13 10:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-16 16:35 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-17 22:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-17 23:18 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-18 19:51 ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-13 15:10 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-14 17:30 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-21 10:41 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-21 13:34 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-05-21 13:46 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-05-15 8:02 Roland
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