Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2008 21:48:13 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters |
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[Jonathan Corbet - Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:27:52AM -0600] | 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 <email@goes.here> | | 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? | | jon |
If my opinion does worth somehow - I'm absolutely agree!
(btw, it seems we forget the main tag ever was - Bug-made-by: ;)
- Cyrill -
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