From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: small author mixup (was: git pull KVM updates for 2.6.26rc)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:20:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080430082032.GA23528@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804301012.05179.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
* Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> While it is not a typical case, is there a better way of specifying
> multiple authors to avoid future confusion?
i think the established rule is that there's one Author field per
commit. Multiple authors should either submit a tree with multiple
commits (which shows the exact lineage of work) - or, for nontrivial
joint work where the development tree would be way too messy, expose
proper credits in copyrights/credit info in the source code. It's seldom
that work is split exactly in half - better spell out who did what both
in the source code and in the commit log - without trying to formalize
the From/Author line. [which line will always be imprecise for multiple
authors.]
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-27 15:39 [GIT PULL] KVM updates for 2.6.26rc Avi Kivity
2008-04-30 8:12 ` small author mixup (was: git pull KVM updates for 2.6.26rc) Christian Borntraeger
2008-04-30 8:20 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-04-30 8:36 ` small author mixup Avi Kivity
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