Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters | Date | Mon, 12 May 2008 21:11:36 +0200 |
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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 <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?
I like the idea.
Thanks, Rafael
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