From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:41856 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965127Ab2CSTd4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:33:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:33:54 -0400 To: Chuck Lever Cc: Steve Dickson , Linux NFS Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] idmapd: logging of Local-Realms only lists the last realm Message-ID: <20120319193354.GG23670@fieldses.org> References: <1332160616-4522-1-git-send-email-steved@redhat.com> <51B1F466-FB87-4764-850E-3936DA71F637@oracle.com> <4F676E95.3090409@RedHat.com> <5295E5C7-2AD7-4D52-B3C1-8C24D964DCEF@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <5295E5C7-2AD7-4D52-B3C1-8C24D964DCEF@oracle.com> From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:43:52PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > My understanding is that SOB is not about responsibility, but about > the provenance of the work. It doesn't matter how large or small the > patch is. Well, it can matter in some ways. For purposes of copyright, e.g., this patch isn't likely to raise any issues. > I've never seen another project maintainer drop an SOB like this, so > I'm just asking (and copying the list for other opinions). No > objection, just want to make sure we are dotting our open-source "i"s > and so on. I have, for small stuff. Or e.g. when a patch was written by a student working with me and I saw previous revisions of it, so I'm willing to vounch for it being their work. And agreed with Steved on process--make it easy for the new and drive-by contributors when it doesn't make extra work for the rest of us, and they'll figure out the rest of the process later if they need to. --b.