From: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <piggy@timesys.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:09:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B6591C.80901@timesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040527010409.66e76397.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
>Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
>
>
>>You currently aren't recording the original author
>>
>>
>
>We are, with care. It's in the changelogs. Every single patch which I
>didn't originate has a From: line at the start of the changelog.
>
For patches that I've been involved with, the changelog line almost always
mentions one of the intermediate handlers, not the original author. I
suspect
that Larry is mostly right.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell's sig
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-27 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-27 6:20 [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission Larry McVoy
2004-05-27 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-27 14:51 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-27 15:18 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-27 16:13 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-27 21:09 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll [this message]
2004-05-27 21:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-05-28 13:24 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-28 15:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-05-28 15:19 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-28 15:27 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-28 15:35 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-28 17:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-05-28 17:16 ` Larry McVoy
2004-05-28 15:24 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] <A6974D8E5F98D511BB910002A50A6647615FD265@hdsmsx403.hd.intel.com>
2004-06-03 6:38 ` Len Brown
[not found] <20040525110000.27463.19462.Mailman@lists.us.dell.com>
2004-05-25 15:03 ` Justin Michael
[not found] <1ZBgK-68x-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-25 6:43 ` Kai Henningsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-24 23:05 Albert Cahalan
2004-05-25 3:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 19:28 ` Horst von Brand
[not found] <1YUY7-6fF-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-05-24 19:57 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-24 20:07 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-24 20:19 ` Joe Perches
2004-05-24 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 21:16 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-24 21:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 0:41 ` Francis J. A. Pinteric
2004-05-25 1:56 ` viro
2004-05-24 20:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 22:01 ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-24 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 20:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-05-24 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 21:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-06-10 8:00 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-25 3:49 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-25 4:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 11:11 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-05-25 13:48 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-25 14:12 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-24 21:19 ` Horst von Brand
2004-05-23 23:19 Shane Shrybman
2004-05-23 6:46 Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 7:41 ` Neil Brown
2004-05-23 8:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 15:25 ` Greg KH
2004-05-23 15:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 15:42 ` Greg KH
2004-05-23 18:03 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-23 15:38 ` Ian Stirling
2004-05-23 15:44 ` Greg KH
2004-05-23 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 16:33 ` Horst von Brand
2004-05-23 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-23 17:32 ` Roman Zippel
2004-05-23 17:55 ` Joe Perches
2004-05-23 19:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-23 19:12 ` Joe Perches
2004-05-23 21:41 ` Francois Romieu
2004-05-23 19:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-23 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 15:20 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-25 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-05-25 6:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-05-25 18:11 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-25 7:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-25 15:32 ` Steven Cole
2004-05-25 16:02 ` Bradley Hook
2004-05-25 18:51 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-25 19:44 ` Bradley Hook
2004-05-26 4:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-05-25 13:11 ` Ben Collins
2004-05-25 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 17:18 ` Ben Collins
2004-05-25 18:02 ` Dave Jones
2004-05-25 18:06 ` Ben Collins
2004-05-25 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 15:00 ` raven
2004-05-25 15:44 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-25 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 16:43 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2004-05-25 17:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-25 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 16:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-05-25 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 18:08 ` Andy Isaacson
2004-05-25 20:10 ` Matt Mackall
2004-06-10 12:58 ` Pavel Machek
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