[Ksummit-discuss] Reforming Acked-by (was Re: [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers)

[Li Zefan]

On 2014/5/30 23:22, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2014 15:07:28 +0200
> Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz> wrote:
> 
>>> This is not only about managers / company. Reviewers does not seem
>>> to have much recognition in upstream community either. For example
>>> we do take into account s-o-b when creating preliminary list of
>>> people to get invited to kernel summit, but we do _not_ take into
>>> account reviewd-by (or has anything changed?)...
>>   Reviewed-by *is* taken into account for KS selection. It is even
>> positively biased against s-o-b AFAIK.
> 
> Yes, it is very much taken into account. But so is all other
> activities. How much you participate is a key factor in KS selection.
> If you submit a 1000 patches in your little subsystem but don't make
> any attempt to review other patches or get involved with the rest of
> the kernel, you are very unlikely to be invited.

Do we account the activity on stable kernels? I guess the answer is no,
because you can't tell if a stable commit was backported automatically
or it was backported due to someone's request/help, and the latter
should be credited.