Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission

Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25T04:02:39Z

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> Actually, there is a question as to how to sign off on something that
> eventually gets rolled into something larger? Simply collect all the
> signatories?

Yup.

This is indeed common for people like Andrew (or anybody else who collects
patches). The only sane thing to do is to just merge the signatories from
any merged patches.

> > Any process that doesn't allow for common sense is just broken, and
> > clearly from a _legal_ standpoint it doesn't matter if we track who fixed
> > out (atrocious) spelling errors.
>
> "our"

Ahem.

"I did that on purpose to make a point".

Sure, that's the ticket.

Linus "ehh, good save" Torvalds