On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:38:28 -0700 [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> ?
