Re: RE: signed-off-by

[Nivedita Singhvi <nsnix@comcast.net>]

Ian Pratt wrote:
>  
> 
>>>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?

I was just throwing up a page on submitting patches to the Xen project:

http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/SubmittingXenPatches?action=show

I'd appreciate it if the Xen maintainers could take a look
and correct if needed. It has a link to the site referred
below that explains what the Developer's Certificate of Origin
is.

thanks,
Nivedita


> 
> 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
> 
> Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 
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