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From: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>
To: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ross Maxfield <rmaxfiel@novell.com>,
	mdday@us.ibm.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Signed-off-by again
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:32:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <443ACEDC.4090501@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1144704260.3847.45.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com>

Hollis Blanchard wrote:

> 
> So in the Linux system, it is OK for Keir to modify (not rewrite) and
> add his Signed-off-by after all.

Yes after reading the email reference I agree with Hollis , and I was 
wrong to say that Keir's method was against linux DCO guidelines (it was 
within guidelines).

> 
> We could follow the Linux system, or something stronger (i.e. no
> modifications to other people's patches allowed). I guess it's up to the
> maintainers...

I still say the right thing in this case is to bounce the patch back to 
the author (preferably with comments). That way all of us gain the 
benefit of the dialog.


Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-10 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1FT0P3-00015M-0U@xenbits.xensource.com>
2006-04-10 18:29 ` [Xen-changelog] If the 'cdrom=' option is specified in the definition file but media is Anthony Liguori
2006-04-10 19:29   ` Ewan Mellor
2006-04-10 20:54     ` Anthony Liguori
2006-04-10 21:24       ` Signed-off-by again Hollis Blanchard
2006-04-10 21:32         ` Mike D. Day [this message]
2006-04-10 21:33         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-04-10 23:58           ` Anthony Liguori
2006-04-10 20:56     ` Re: [Xen-changelog] If the 'cdrom=' option is specified in the definition file but media is Mike D. Day
2006-04-10 21:02     ` Anthony Liguori
2006-04-10 23:35     ` Anthony Liguori
2006-04-11 16:59 Signed-off-by again Ian Pratt
2006-04-11 18:39 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda

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