Experiments · Negative results
Linux review tags and reverts
Setup and what was tested: experiment card.
Numbers.
1,233,421 commits in the streamed Perceval dump. 17,047 of 60,176 developer-labeled bug-introducing SHAs carry Reviewed-by on that same commit. Named revert: cpufreq: suspend governors… merged 2013-11-27, reverted 2013-12-08, same title re-entered 2014-03-04 (2f0aea936360). -stable f8a07021679a versus upstream 42c5ca1f0a28: listed review/stable tags green; event_sched_out is 2-arg versus 3-arg (documented adjustment).
Outcome.
Fail on those implications; refuse treating Reviewed-by as a forge-proof safety metric. See W-3.
Key findings
Reviewed-by appears on many later-labeled bug-introducing commits; a revert did not stop same-title re-entry; -stable listed tags can hide hunk changes.