Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2008 13:28:49 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters |
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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:27:52AM -0600, 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.
I assume it will be valid for one person to have two or all three tags in one commit (not uncommon for some of the stuff I'm doing)?
> 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. >...
In which format do you want data for commits already in 2.6.26?
> jon
cu Adrian
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