Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission

Ben Collins
2004-05-25T18:37:59Z

> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Spotted-by: Joe Hacker <joe@scoblows.com>
>
> As asking submitters to sign off on modified versions
> of their patch would be silly overhead IMO.

That's fine with me too. I could definitely see there being 2 or 3
headers that mid-level developers could use to identify the origin of a
patch and they could be documented.

Linus could just concern himself with atleast us subsystem-maintainers
putting the Signed-off-by on there and not worry himself about the other
headers.

Could have something like:

Spotted-by: Foo
Submitted-by: Bar
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins

And if there's a problem, Linus can come knocking on my door for fucking
up, and I'd be the bottom line responsible for the submission. Linus
need only put his confidence on a small subset of patch submitters (like
he mainly does now) doing the Signed-off-by.

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