Re: Reporting bugs and bisection

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 05:54:35 EST


On 4/15/08, David Newall <davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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