[ovirt-devel] Reported-By - giving credit to our testers

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul at redhat.com>
> To: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Piotr Kliczewski" <pkliczew at redhat.com>, "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:55:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Reported-By - giving credit to our testers
> 
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Nir Soffer < nsoffer at redhat.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Our QE (and sometimes our users) are working hard testing and
> reporting bugs, but
> their effort is never mentioned in our code.
> 
> Looking at kernel git history, I found that they are using the
> Reported-By header for
> giving credit to the person reporting a bug. I suggest we adapt this header.
> 
> Here are some examples how we can use it:
> 
> - https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/48483/3//COMMIT_MSG
> -
> https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm/commit/fb4c72af5e4c200409c74834111d44d92959ebbd
> -
> https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm/commit/f8127d88add881a4775e7030dde2433125c7b598
> 
> Thanks,
> Nir
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> +1
> 
> In case they help with the verification of the change, I suggest adding
> Tested-By which is just as important.
> From https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches :
> 
> A Tested-by: tag indicates that the patch has been successfully tested (in
> some environment) by the person named.  This tag informs maintainers that
> some testing has been performed, provides a means to locate testers for
> future patches, and ensures credit for the testers.

This meant to give credit for whoever is doing that in his own time, not for cooperation that pays for QA nor replace bugzilla.
If you go over the logs, you will see I provide Reported-By and Tested-By two who produce significant effort in helping out a case.

> 
> Y.
> 
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