On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:38:28 -0700 dan.j.williams@intel.com wrote:
Jakub Kicinski wrote:
Hi!
Does anyone have ideas about crediting test authors or tests for bugs discovered? We increasingly see situations where someone adds a test then our subsystem CI uncovers a (1 in a 100 runs) bug using that test.
Using reported-by doesn't feel right. But credit should go to the person who wrote the test. Is anyone else having this dilemma?
Is that not a "credit in the changelog" situation?
"Big thanks to DeveloperX for their recent TestY added with CommitZ for catching this case."
That's what we do usually, but I'm a strong believer in (LWN) statistics to help people justify the work they do upstream. Feels even more important for testing than feature development in a way.
So a tag would be ideal. But it's a hard nut to crack. Best I can come up with would be:
Reproducer: test.case.path # 001122aabb (optimal) commit of the test case
? Could potentially be useful for backporters?
Reported-by: Some CI Bot
I guess we'd need something like:
Reported-by: subsystem CI # Person Who developed@the.test ?