From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Elsayed Subject: Re: Signed-off-by and aliases Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:23:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: <55BBD384.7030703@dachary.org> <55BFCAAB.1040707@dachary.org> <55CB4163.9040504@dachary.org> <55CDABB2.4080401@suse.de> <55CDC978.20304@dachary.org> <55D24790.4010703@dachary.org> <55D24FA2.8020207@dachary.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35378 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750906AbbHQVYR (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:24:17 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRRt9-0007Ny-JM for ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:24:15 +0200 Received: from 66-87-139-27.pools.spcsdns.net ([66-87-139-27.pools.spcsdns.net]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:24:15 +0200 Received: from eternaleye by 66-87-139-27.pools.spcsdns.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:24:15 +0200 Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Loic Dachary wrote: > > > On 17/08/2015 22:58, Alex Elsayed wrote: > >> The S-o-B tag, then, simply says "If you look, you'll find my affirmation >> of intent to follow the DCO" - it is not, in itself, anything other than >> a pointer. This prevents people from copypasta'ing the S-o-B line as a >> magic incantation, without understanding the meaning. (Which the kernel >> has found _does_ happen _anyway_, but with the "actually submitted a DCO" >> requirement they can _detect_ that.) > > Oh, I overlooked that, thanks for the information. I can see how that can > make a difference indeed. This is a really good article about how the DCO system works, and why: https://lwn.net/Articles/592503/