Re: "Changelog-2.6.15": missing signoffs, descriptions

From: Kurt Wall
Date: Wed Feb 08 2006 - 19:08:51 EST


On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:00:01PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap took 50 lines to write:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> > Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:06:05PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> > >
> > >> Actually, ("talking" to myself?), parsing this file a bit more,
> > >> I find many (~134) that are missing "Sign-offs".
> > >>
> > >> I take it that "Sign-off"s are also "optional" on commits
> > >> and represent that the author specified under the "commit"
> > >> tag did not need a "Sign-off"?

[...]

> Linda, did you have some other point that you are trying to get to,
> or is that it? There are real efforts being made, although not
> perfect. That happens when people are involved.
> Anyway, it feels like you are just getting to the surface/edge
> of your complaint.

The way I read this thread, I thought the complaint was that she's
having difficulty writing one or more tools to process the changes
automatically. Perhaps I'm not seeing past the surface.

Kurt
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