Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:55:42 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Reporting bugs and bisection |
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:05:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:01:05 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > > From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> > > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:54:00 +1000 (EST) > > > > > - Things like "who made the kernel" statistics and related articles ignore > > > code review. > > > > Note the apparent irony in that the person who ends up often on the > > top of those lists, Al Viro, is also someone who also does a > > significant amount of code review. > > > > I think this is no accident. > > "who made the kernel" was an interesting and useful exercise, but if you > like irony then... > > - The way to boost your commit count is to submit buggy patches and to > then fix your own bugs. > > - The way to lower your commit count is to fix things in other people's > patches, then fold your fix into the base patch. I've lost over 1000 > commits that way. Unless they are counting '^ [akpm' as a commit.
And if Dave speaks about these stats : http://lwn.net/Articles/237768/ then Al does not even appear in it, which proves your point.
Willy
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