Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers

It's good that everyone is taking Linux kernel quality very seriously today. Let me (re)raise a few suggestions that will help, which are standard practice in other projects:

Use a system for tracking bug reports (especially regressions) that is more reliable than "email LKML and hope it gets noticed and not forgotten".

Expect every submitted code change to come with an automated test (that is run before any release), or an explanation as to why such a test is infeasible. Create test frameworks to systematically reduce occurrences of the latter case.

Enthusiastically adopt Rust where possible because it eliminates entire classes of pernicious bugs.