[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Thursday 04 Aug 2016 14:44:33 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 20:16:45 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Would publishing statistics help, like the top 10 of Ackers and Reviewers?
> > 
> > E.g. Hall of Fame of bug fixers, based on the presence of Fixes tags, and
> > Hall of Shame, based on patches CCed to stable lacking Fixes tags?
> 
> I would not have the Hall of Shame, as people just like seeing there
> name in print, they may not care if it is fame or shame.
> 
> As for the Hall of Fame, I'm not sure what I would think if I made that
> list. As most of my Fixes is for code that I originally wrote. Thus it
> just points out all the bad code I made in the past.
> 
> Reminds me of a story I heard a long time ago, about a manager that
> wanted to help encourage his programmers to find more bugs. He gave
> them a $20 bonus for every bug they found and fixed. What he forgot to
> take into consideration was that these were the same programmers that
> were writing the code they would be finding bugs in. I heard that one
> programmer racked up $10,000 before they fixed their mistake ;-)

http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart