Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] docs: introduce dedicated page about code provenance / sign-off

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 06:29:39PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 17:22, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently we have a short paragraph saying that patches must include
> > a Signed-off-by line, and merely link to the kernel documentation.
> > The linked kernel docs have a lot of content beyond the part about
> > sign-off an thus are misleading/distracting to QEMU contributors.
> 
> Thanks for this -- I've felt for ages that it was a bit awkward
> that we didn't have a good place to link people to for the fuller
> explanation of this.
> 
> > This introduces a dedicated 'code-provenance' page in QEMU talking
> > about why we require sign-off, explaining the other tags we commonly
> > use, and what to do in some edge cases.
> 
> The version of the kernel SubmittingPatches we used to link to
> includes the text "sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions".
> This new documentation doesn't say anything either way about
> our approach to pseudonyms. I think we should probably say
> something, but I don't know if we have an in-practice consensus
> there, so maybe we should approach that as a separate change on
> top of this patch.


Well given we referred to kernel previously then I guess that's
the concensus, no?


> So for this patch:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM