Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission
From: La Monte H.P. Yarroll
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 10:21:34 EST
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004, Davide Libenzi wrote:
Andrew already puts the "From:" thing in the patch comment, so this should
be simply a matter of replacing "From:" with "Signed-off-by:", preserving
it in logs, and documenting the thing in the patch submission doc. No?
Yes and no.
Right now it is _Andrew_ that does the From: line from you. In the
sign-off procedure, it would be _you_ who add the "Signed-off-by:" line
for yourself.
(And then Andrew would sign off on the fact that you signed off).
Not a big difference, I agree.
Andrew's From comment is already a little lossy, e.g. most LKSCTP patches
show up as from Sridhar or DaveM even though there's a whole subproject
of developers working behind Sridhar.
I think the proposed process will increase the amount of explicit credit
being recognized--a very good thing IMHO, since this is the core currency
of our gift culture.
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