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 ESMTP id 31F67990 for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 01:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com (szxga03-in.huawei.com [119.145.14.66]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26168201BA for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 01:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <538930A9.50302@huawei.com> Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 09:30:17 +0800 From: Li Zefan MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt References: <1400925225.6956.25.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20140529182753.GJ25041@thunk.org> <700704721.GMn4j9GJx9@vostro.rjw.lan> <20140529233004.GB11741@kroah.com> <20140530130728.GB2419@quack.suse.cz> <20140530112211.12ad856b@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20140530112211.12ad856b@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: James Bottomley , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Reforming Acked-by (was Re: [TOPIC] Encouraging more reviewers) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 2014/5/30 23:22, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2014 15:07:28 +0200 > Jan Kara wrote: > >>> This is not only about managers / company. Reviewers does not seem >>> to have much recognition in upstream community either. For example >>> we do take into account s-o-b when creating preliminary list of >>> people to get invited to kernel summit, but we do _not_ take into >>> account reviewd-by (or has anything changed?)... >> Reviewed-by *is* taken into account for KS selection. It is even >> positively biased against s-o-b AFAIK. > > Yes, it is very much taken into account. But so is all other > activities. How much you participate is a key factor in KS selection. > If you submit a 1000 patches in your little subsystem but don't make > any attempt to review other patches or get involved with the rest of > the kernel, you are very unlikely to be invited. Do we account the activity on stable kernels? I guess the answer is no, because you can't tell if a stable commit was backported automatically or it was backported due to someone's request/help, and the latter should be credited.