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SubjectRe: Tracking and crediting bug reporters
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

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Adrian

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"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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