From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:54:18 GMT Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Message-ID: <517f3f820804150254w491cdf85s28f1d15696db8d96@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4804765B.2070300@davidnewall.com> On 4/15/08, David Newall wrote: > James Morris wrote: > > I don't know how to solve this, but suspect that encouraging the use of > > reviewed-by and also including it in things like analysis of who is > > contributing, selection for kernel summit invitations etc. would be a > > start. At least, better than nothing. > > Would it be hard to keep count of the number of errors introduced by > author and reviewer? I've found quite a few errors in kernel-userland APIs, but I'm not sure that this sort of negative statistic would be helpful -- e.g., more productive developers probably also introduce more errors. -- I'll likely only see replies if they are CCed to mtk.manpages at gmail dot com