From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B090AAC for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0102.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.102]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24831E3 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:53:15 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk Message-ID: <20150708145315.29030a75@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20150708080032.CE89E4306F@saturn.retrosnub.co.uk> References: <201507080121.41463.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> <1481488.5WJFbB0Dlm@vostro.rjw.lan> <1436341028.2136.14.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20150708080032.CE89E4306F@saturn.retrosnub.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: James Bottomley , Jason Cooper , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 09:00:32 +0100 jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk wrote: > > We can alter that somewhat. We used to run a Maintainers lottery for > > the kernel summit ... we could instead offer places based on the number > > of Reviewed-by: tags ... we have all the machinery to calculate that. I > > know an invitation to the kernel summit isn't a huge incentive, but it's > > a useful one. > > Sounds like a good idea to me, though it would only effect a tiny > percentage of our reviewers. I suppose publishing a short list of the top > n% of reviewers from which the lottery runs might give some > recognition. > I personally don't trust a Reviewed-by tag much, as I sometimes see them appear without any comments. I was thinking of writing a perl script that would read my LKML archive and somewhat intelligently looking at people who replied to patches, that also has snippets of the patch in the reply, and counting them. I think that would be a more accurate use of real reviewers than just the Reviewed-by tag. -- Steve