Reported-by as opt-in

[Posted May 29, 2019 by corbet]

The Reported-by tag is used to give credit to people who report bugs in the kernel. Developers tend to add it as a matter of course, at least when public reports are involved. Konstantin Ryabitsev is now asking that developers get explicit permission to include a Reported-by tag in a patch, since said tag includes some personal information that could be said to fall under the terms of the GDPR privacy regulations. The discussion of this suggestion has been surprisingly muted, but it is fair to say that there does not appear to be a consensus behind this idea at the moment, so it's not entirely clear what the rule will be for Reported-by going forward.

Reported-by as opt-in

Posted May 30, 2019 17:23 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

As futile as it may be in practice, at least keeping names out of the view of casual shoulder-surfers is something. Some distros out there could do well to learn from this example.

Reported-by as opt-in

Posted May 31, 2019 15:47 UTC (Fri) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]

But one of the greatest things about contributing to Linux is that there is so much credit given to everybody involved! The same cannot be said of projects that still use SVN.