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 7AD329B for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 23:14:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com (e34.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.152]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8856EA for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 23:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from /spool/local by e34.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:14:03 -0600 Received: from b03cxnp08027.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03cxnp08027.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.19]) by d03dlp01.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D0C1FF0042 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:05:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by b03cxnp08027.gho.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id t6QNDx2I35651712 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:13:59 -0700 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id t6QNDwWv020178 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:13:59 -0600 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:13:56 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Steven Rostedt Message-ID: <20150726231356.GA19480@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <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> <20150709231352.GB4516@cloud> <20150710164938.72da8ef1@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150710164938.72da8ef1@gandalf.local.home> Cc: James Bottomley , jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Jason Cooper Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 04:49:38PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 16:13:52 -0700 > josh@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > > > That assumes the patch actually has issues. To use the reviews I do on > > RCU patches as an example, in a patch series, I might reply to a few > > patches with "here are some issues; with those fixed, Reviewed-by...", > > and then reply to the remaining unproblematic patches (individually or > > in aggregate) with just the Reviewed-by. > > Josh, I read your reviews. Yes, you have a bunch of single "Reviewed-by" > tags, but you also have a lot of emails with substantially significant > comments. What Ted is saying, is to see how many significant replies one > has. In fact, I would say if we were to automate this, each significant > reply (one with actual comments), would increase the weight that a > single "Reviewed-by" email would carry. That way people like yourself > would have more weight attached to emails with single "Reviewed-by" > than others that don't have many emails with actual comments attached. Just to state the obvious, I greatly value Josh's reviews as well, especially the ones where he points out a bug. Much easier than finding them the hard way! ;-) Thanx, Paul