From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A66D70 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD90D613D8; Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:37:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1619105834; bh=9eLwVZ1czfSPNNmbN5qEBdKsPRU88Rv5gF2Ogm7NDds=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=gU5In1p0Hgb1egrqKE98vS46j3pukW+Wpgkf2E6Dx4huQCs+BuITfcdAfy9c26fNM rFtPD6F/q1zz3KafW31pdi6umsye1uRS92tfmhR4CRoskeoPXgNHoPuN6VQ26YTvoq E4ROLulz0VZeYkQrF62tC74xtgRO16JcQZTRimBBXP0LkV9DxqeZuFZKBxV7fdG5kN w22iLLt15Ie6/mq1ZSvMgGRJ6cLlvWI95LZCDraPIaIPSz7YcC+z0WDAUCpwkFhpVz WAd2Y1wuh/3RRRhgqCh4mHZ1tPmhYzfStqiZSBKaYJu5etwMRvjCKaxxJwrX6Zm3rt A1WiCl6wpkoCQ== Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:36:46 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: James Bottomley Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking the acceptance policy for "trivial" patches Message-ID: <20210422153646.GI4572@sirena.org.uk> References: <20210422123559.1dc647fb@coco.lan> <99289ff4cf7b1e59f82c330728c80dc7e63319a7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UthUFkbMtH2ceUK2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <99289ff4cf7b1e59f82c330728c80dc7e63319a7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> X-Cookie: Jesus is my POSTMASTER GENERAL ... User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) --UthUFkbMtH2ceUK2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 08:28:00AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 08:32 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Another metric that may be worth capturing is how many Fixes: tags > > refer to patches authored by this submitter. > Or perhaps invert it: no bug fix without a Fixes: tag. Some of the > human handlers of robot based finders, like Dan's smatch, do go back > and figure out where the bug came from, but if we encourage the rule > that if you're fixing a bug you must identify the origin and explain > the bug it may help weed out some bogus fixes. Script that use git blame to generate a commit to put in the Fixes: tag incoming... --UthUFkbMtH2ceUK2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAmCBmA0ACgkQJNaLcl1U h9ACyAf7Bl9TaJg3ZFqps58sVpwTfgOYHSMjSDnVzsNx5KDs56f+mCT3bECOC7MZ 7WCYuw6tigOQOvhVaIkcyfWObHxM8hF2NScZESEugy73Sgyhq7mY6APUx+ncxOKf 0mtheHpj8RqiOhW7kAl7WfxxgZ8OR6R12nGeknTh9b7giuCIsftYTivlJ2SjQvix gbdC1tCQSigAVpYDocEND34EmllTd0fTeIdbAWzX3l2NUM0gBKa3qExFj2ghtRK1 LCHgGNWmS4OhracutnqUmaPu3DZuwGA+PqFb0lkkyEOcPnYwO6oC0/1DXBHjqcet izwjPR0W/fH7Hoq+ZYIaVgrNpqZLuQ== =6/tS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UthUFkbMtH2ceUK2--