From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <459EC918.7090702@melbourne.sgi.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:54:32 +1100 From: David Chatterton Reply-To: chatz@melbourne.sgi.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: merged patches References: <458AFA34.1000100@sandeen.net> <459EA308.6040809@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <459EA308.6040809@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lachlan@sgi.com Cc: Eric Sandeen , xfs-dev@sgi.com List-ID: Lachlan, I think this page http://asg.melbourne.sgi.com/xfs/rampup/xfs_to_linus.shtml needs to rewritten to make it clear about - signed off by - the one line at the start of the overall change description - cc'ing xfs@oss.sgi.com - anything else? The title of the page is not right either, we have other pages now describing how to push stuff to linus, and others talking about how to use git. Could you have a go at this? Thanks, David Lachlan McIlroy wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Hi Lachlan, thanks for merging some of my tidy-up patches. :) >> >> A couple things - >> >> I never saw the take messages go by the external list, just noticed them >> after a cvs update and an attempt to sync up my patchset. Can you guys >> please send the take messages externally too? It makes it much easier >> to keep up with what's going on, for those interested. > I sent the TAKE messages to xfs@oss.sgi.com, xfs-dev@sgi.com and to > Bugworks. We've had problems with email traffic to oss disappearing > or taking up to 4 weeks to appear! > >> >> Also, please don't strip out the Signed-off-by: lines in contributed >> patches; that authorship information should stay with the patch. Feel >> free to add signed-off-by or reviewed-by but the original signed-off-by >> line shouldn't be removed... > Sorry about that, I didn't know about the signed-off-by thingy. -- David Chatterton XFS Engineering Manager SGI Australia