From: Jesper Juhl Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:17:14 GMT Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection Message-ID: <9a8748490804161417n4ad6c1den54ccd302831a66c6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 16/04/2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: ... > Git is participating in Google Summer of Code this year and I've > proposed to write a 'git statistics' command. This command would allow > the user to gather data about a repository, ranging from "how active > is dev x" to "what did x work on in the last 3 weeks". It's main > feature however, would be an algorithm that ranks commits as being > either 'buggy', 'bugfix' or 'enhancement'. Interresting. Just be careful results are produced for the big picture and not used to point fingers at individuals. >(There are several clues > that can aid in determining this, a commit msg along the lines of > "fixes ..." being the most obvious.) One thing I thought of is that the more "Acked-by", "Reviewed-by" and "Signed-off-by" lines a patch has, the better reviewed we can probably assume it to be and thus the probability of it having introduced a bug probably drops slightly compared to other less-reviewed patches... or maybe not, but at least it's something to think about :-) -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html