On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:20:45AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> Agreed. On the other side, is gaming really a problem with kernel code
> reviews ? Sure, a search engine provider will have to look out for
> abuse patterns, but for code reviews I am not sure if it is worth the
> effort. I would suspect that it is much more likely that the simple
> "wc -w" approach should provide you with worthy candidates for the KS.
> Since you are not dealing with hundreds or thousands of candidates,
> I'd assume you'll do a hand screening anyway, and quickly identify any
> gamers. I'd be quite surprised if there are any, though.

I think the concern is more long term - if we're trying to reward
reviewers in order to encourage review then probably now we're fine but
if we do it in a way that's gameable will that end up having the effect
that we want?