On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:05:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:01:05 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:54:00 +1000 (EST) > > > > > - Things like "who made the kernel" statistics and related articles ignore > > > code review. > > > > Note the apparent irony in that the person who ends up often on the > > top of those lists, Al Viro, is also someone who also does a > > significant amount of code review. > > > > I think this is no accident. > > "who made the kernel" was an interesting and useful exercise, but if you > like irony then... > > - The way to boost your commit count is to submit buggy patches and to > then fix your own bugs. > > - The way to lower your commit count is to fix things in other people's > patches, then fold your fix into the base patch. I've lost over 1000 > commits that way. Unless they are counting '^ [akpm' as a commit. And if Dave speaks about these stats : http://lwn.net/Articles/237768/ then Al does not even appear in it, which proves your point. Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
