[Jonathan Corbet - Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:27:52AM -0600]
| 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?
|
| jon
|
If my opinion does worth somehow - I'm absolutely agree!
(btw, it seems we forget the main tag ever was - Bug-made-by: ;)
- Cyrill -
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