Signed-off-by

Signed-off-by

[Albert Cahalan]

Linus Torvalds writes:

> (Seriously, while nobody has actually complained about
> the suggested rules, I don't think anybody should feel
> compelled to do the sign-off before we've had more
> time to let people argue over it. People who feel 
> comfortable with the suggestion are obviously
> encouraged to start asap, though).

I had been hoping someone had just forged your email
address. :-/

The wordy mix-case aspect is kind of annoying, and for
all that we don't get to differentiate actions.
I count:

1. came up with the design ideas
2. wrote the original patch
3. reviewed and passed on
4. modified
5. blindly passed on

Maybe "blindly passed on" needs nothing. So I'm
thinking, if we must bother with all this...

designed:
authored:
reviewed:
modified:

Add "pirated:" if you like, so that searching for
pirated code is easier than checking the evil bit.

signed-off-by

[James Harper]

> 
> Thanks for the patch, but please can we have a signed-off-by: line
> 

Just for the record, what is the significance of a 'signed-off-by'? Is
it something that hg generates or something that you just manually type
into the email when you submit a patch?

James

RE: signed-off-by

[Ian Pratt]

 
> > Thanks for the patch, but please can we have a signed-off-by: line
> > 
> Just for the record, what is the significance of a 
> 'signed-off-by'? Is it something that hg generates or 
> something that you just manually type into the email when you 
> submit a patch?

The signed-off-by: line should be added by hand and is used to track the
provenance of patches. Please see
http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html

Unless a patch is utterly trivial we need it signed off before we can
accept it.

Thanks,
Ian

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