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 29E4BA04 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:33:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk (mezzanine.sirena.org.uk [106.187.55.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBB2F15B for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:32:50 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <20150710183250.GY11162@sirena.org.uk> References: <20150708145315.29030a75@gandalf.local.home> <559D8336.3040802@roeck-us.net> <1436414798.23558.3.camel@ellerman.id.au> <559EBD4C.6030502@gmail.com> <20150709190640.GC788@roeck-us.net> <20150709194734.GG9169@vmdeb7> <20150709201315.GF9417@thunk.org> <20150709205049.GB5154@roeck-us.net> <20150709214718.GG9417@thunk.org> <20150710182045.GA19854@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ji4Rnx8WjMcV97wJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150710182045.GA19854@roeck-us.net> Cc: James Bottomley , jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk, 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: , --ji4Rnx8WjMcV97wJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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? --ji4Rnx8WjMcV97wJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVoA/RAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQFwUH/0YC1d0KQLSL1Yanf1+Sc2v9 BepyEqvbbBE6SYGohqPr1SR8mFTxzjEspTg3qa4fFPyF/9C1m3dtkI6i8TOe0P4A F4YBaEdcNtM4GmYcP+vumD/YKWyyTj+rQ9qk9fqIXr/x0Ct5RbGB1vzTaKR9EI8k ki3bjnlEOVyI/PCyGR8Ql+pKFYIpZzZYQxtvuhWeFmVXrJZYDrZpBRAB9r0TSKI0 m2ht7BRbMbCLgjIw8WA136I5EyExdFrMUHXddI4nLgbo/MWxGIhnx1d9pr3FDIY8 rRqvzPRKGR3eudEp5CiPOxkjMgQ34/ovV1MOMKotEedU+twlL5s27qckJdkNmT4= =6iPA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ji4Rnx8WjMcV97wJ--