Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2008 17:10:51 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters |
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On 12-05-08 19:27, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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.
Ingo Molnar recently already used the latter:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121032355203154&w=4
and a reply of mine consisted of now also needing a Reported-By:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121037403515110&w=4
I must say the Bisected-by thing did feel a bit childish ("ah, I'm not in it to get the bug fixed but to get my name mentioned!") but hey, I find things to be offended over easily. From the example it does seem you probably want both if you have one; if reporter, nailer-downer and fixer are three seperate people.
Rene.
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