On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:39:41PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >... > > E.g. if you look at commit f743d04dcfbeda7439b78802d35305781999aa11 > > (ide/legacy/q40ide.c: add MODULE_LICENSE), how could you determine > > automatically that it is a bugfix, and the commit that introduced > > the bug? > > Well, a dead giveaway would be: > "http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10124"; Which could be "There is no driver for my TV card in the kernel." > > You can always get some data, but if you want to get usable statistics > > you need explicit tags in the commits, not some algorithm that tries > > to guess. > > As said above, I don't agree, you can 'guess' very reliably on a large > dataset. Also, most commits are already 'tagged' in some way or > another. The trick is to find the pattern in this tagging and use it. > > I hope this clears things up a bit, I hope you are aware of the non-technical implications if the results don't match reality? E.g. I am proud that my commits do virtually never introduce bugs, so any results someone publishes about what I do should better be right or my first thoughts are somewhere between "fist" and "lawyer". [1] > Cheers, > > Sverre Rabbelier cu Adrian [1] my actual reaction might only be an angry email, but I hope you get the point that wrong results can really piss off people -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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
