Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission

[La Monte H.P. Yarroll]

Bradley Hook wrote:

> Steven Cole wrote:
>
> > On May 25, 2004, at 1:06 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > > > explanation part of the patch. That sign-off would be just a single 
> > > > line
> > > > at the end (possibly after _other_ peoples sign-offs), saying:
> > > >
> > > >     Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > well this obviously needs to include that you signed off on the DCO and
> > > not some other random piece of paper, and it probably should include 
> > > the
> > > DCO revision number you signed off on.
> > > Without the former the Signed-off-by: line is entirely empty afaics,
> > > without the later we're not future proof.
> >
> > How about something like:
> >
> >     DCO 1.0 Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This new process being "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound
> > of cure" should retain the property of being lightweight and not
> > unduly burdensome.  This change seems to fall into that category.
> >
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> Why not design the DCO so that it assumes an author accepts the most 
> recent published version unless specified. You could then shorten the 
> line to:
>
> DCO-Sign-Off: Random J Developer <random@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If I'm looking at a 15 year old document where do I go to find out what
"most recent published version" meant at that time?  This assumes we're
talking about a document that has a clear timestamp.  If we care about
the version number at all, it should be in every signoff line.

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