Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

From: Roman Shaposhnik
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 14:32:28 EST


On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 03:41 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> I'm getting more and more sensitive to issues on this level over time,
> because I realize that the fundamental issue in all human group issues
> is getting people to "want" to do things. And "force", in any form,
> tends to be incompatible with "want". And in particular, people will
> often even shun things they "want" when it is "forced" to them.

Just wanted to add my 2c by mentioning my favorite example of
"virtual Tom Sawyering" as far as a tedious review process goes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check

Which is also quite cheap too -- AFAIK very few of those have ever
been cashed.

Thanks,
Roman.

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