Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission

Theodore Ts'o
2004-05-27T21:46:48Z

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:09:48PM -0400, La Monte H.P. Yarroll wrote:
> >We are, with care. It's in the changelogs. Every single patch which I
> >didn't originate has a From: line at the start of the changelog.
> >
> For patches that I've been involved with, the changelog line almost always
> mentions one of the intermediate handlers, not the original author. I
> suspect that Larry is mostly right.

Up until recently we've had the person doing the BK commit, plus
person they received it from. That's identical to the two-level chain
of custody which Larry was proposing as being "good enough" most of
the time. But more recently, there have been changelog comments like
this:

ChangeSet@1.1743.1.52, 2004-05-25 08:43:49-07:00, akpm@osdl.org
[PATCH] minor sched.c cleanup

Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@onestepahead.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The following obviously correct patch from Christian Meder simplifies the
DELTA() define.

Which do show the original author.

- Ted