Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Posted Dec 31, 2010 10:35 UTC (Fri) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470)
Parent article: Who wrote 2.6.37

I really would like to know why there is such discrepancy between the LWN kernel stats and Remword kernel stats. In this article you wrote: "there were 568 Reported-by and 366 Tested-by tag lines found in patches merged for 2.6.37".
In this page (generated Dec. 30) I can see 458 Reported-by tags and in this page I can see 289 Tested-by tags.

The gap is huge! All these numbers are based on the same Git tree and should be the same.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Posted Dec 31, 2010 23:15 UTC (Fri) by geofft (subscriber, #59789) [Link] (1 responses)

Intriguing, I get a bunch of different numbers:

opus:/home/geofft/linux-2.6 geofft$ git log v2.6.36..v2.6.37-rc7 | grep Reviewed-by | wc -l
686
opus:/home/geofft/linux-2.6 geofft$ git log --first-parent v2.6.36..v2.6.37-rc7 | grep Reviewed-by | wc -l
17

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Posted Jan 6, 2011 14:35 UTC (Thu) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link]

Just because I'm OCD it, try grep -c instead of grep ... | wc -l