Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:11:39 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Current List of Kernel Summit suggested topics from the discuss list |
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Jesse Barnes wrote: > If we measure quality using bug metrics, things are pretty hard.
One problem with any metric is that the metric becomes a driving factor in itself. Consider the whole whitespace issue, for example.
As far as the whitespace issue is concerned, we may want to consider just setting a flag day -- probably immediately before an -rc1 release -- and just run "cleanfile" on the whole tree. In-flux patches are still appliable with "patch -l", and by now we should have enough tools to avoid adding new whitespace problems, so we can just kill this issue once and for all.
-hpa
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