Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760943AbXFQULA (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:11:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759871AbXFQUKx (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:10:53 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:60419 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757634AbXFQUKw (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:10:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=f0I3UdYtIJT+xwbFFi520sxvHzqSpAePyUxx32pHxTWlfauHCs9JWY+VqS7z3cx5l3CVi+jRv5o7/PZvNQ8hxjicig7k/s533JG8yAMJx2lxuSrVYyUwrc3bfiMsGlGbCpiQjUF9JnDb7YlspRRpQPrtw2k066L9wtHyiZH1Ww8= Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0706171310o3b486a64sda36744dce8b52cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:10:51 +0200 From: "Michal Piotrowski" To: "Stefan Richter" Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel? Cc: "Carlo Wood" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Andrew Morton" , "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" , "Adrian Bunk" , "Oleg Verych" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andi Kleen" , "Diego Calleja" , "Chuck Ebbert" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <467592D7.8050300@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200706172053.41806.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20070617115258.1f55b29d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200706172118.19214.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070617193356.GB20727@alinoe.com> <467592D7.8050300@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1082 Lines: 27 On 17/06/07, Stefan Richter wrote: > Carlo Wood wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 09:18:17PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> where n is a number that needs to be determined (I think that n could be 3). > >> Well, "negative comments" should also be defined more precisely. ;-) > > > > I think that n should be a function of the number of accepted patches > > that this person sent in before, and the number of regressions he > > caused in the past. > > The character of the patch (potential impacts, size...) and availability > of reviewers and testers influence the required review time so much that > other factors, like reputation of the submitter, hardly matter. So we need a bug/regression/patch tracking system based on MMORPG game ;) Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/