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

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:

> 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.

You could be right, but then she has solved it (noted as
"optional" fields above).  Good.

-- 
~Randy
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