[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

[Jonathan Cameron]

On 14 July 2015 05:38:03 BST, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 07:28:25PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 04:33:31PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>> > On Mon 13-07-15 17:20:47, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 07:28:23AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>> 
>> This happened hours ago in staging.  Someone sent a buggy patch and
>> reviewers spotted the bug but no one got credit.
>> 
>>
>http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2015-July/072662.html
>>
>http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2015-July/072668.html
>> 
>> Imagine how special Patrick would feel if we gave him a nice
>> "With-fix-from: Patrick Farrell <paf at cray.com>" tag.  :)  Also the
>other
>> rule would be that only the first person to report the bug gets the
>> credit (Sorry, Sudip).
>Doesn't matter. I am a volunteer and contributing here is not part of
>my dayjob. I do it because I like doing it.
>>The next version of the patch had a process
>> problem which Sudip noticed as well but that still doesn't earn a
>> with-fix-from tag.
>Then will the first reviewer always get the credit? Suppose a
>hypothetial
>situation where v1 is just having a bug like the one you mentioned,
>reviewer X points that out so he gets "With-fix-from:", but v2 has a
>more
>serious problem and results in build failure and reviewer Y points that
>out
>and v3 is the final patch that is accepted. So now who will get
>"With-fix-from:" ?
Both surely. Different bug, different tag (though only one per bug finder)
>
>regards
>sudip

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