On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:02:47 -0700
Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

At least with the data we have currently in git it's impossible to 
figure that out automatically.

E.g. if you look at commit f743d04dcfbeda7439b78802d35305781999aa11 
(ide/legacy/q40ide.c: add MODULE_LICENSE), how could you determine 
automatically that it is a bugfix, and the commit that introduced
the bug?

You can always get some data, but if you want to get usable
statistics you need explicit tags in the commits, not some
algorithm that tries to guess.

Well yes.  One outcome of the project would be to tell us what
changes we'd need to make to our processes to make such data
gathering more effective.

also.. "what is a bugfix" is an interesting thing... for some things it's very easy.
For others.. it's really hard to draw a solid line where bugs stop and features start.
(for example, is a missing cpu id in oprofile a bugfix ("oprofile doesn't work") or 
a feature ("new cpu support"). This one is one of the more simple ones even...)

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