On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:39:12 +0100 Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 08:00:23AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > 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? > > Usually I'd do a reported-by for whoever actually looked at the test > system, triaged the issue and reported it. Trying to credit test > authorship separately to the testsuite gets cumbersome over time, tests > get updated over time for a range of reasons (toolchain updates, adding > more coverage, improvements in the testsuite's frameworks...) so it's > often not just a single person. Hopefully the testsuite is keeping > track of things well enough so mentioning the test will point people in > the right direction. Ack, it does get murky overtime. Also with pre-commit testing there usually wouldn't even be a bug in the tree to credit fixing. I guess we just had a lucky(?) string of very clear cut cases where a good selftest led the maintainer noticing a crash in the CI, and fixing something.
