From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Reported-by tags and permission
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:04:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141028090451.41ed6aad@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140214093001.GA15933@elgon.mountain>
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:30:01 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> -If this patch fixes a problem reported by somebody else, consider adding a
> -Reported-by: tag to credit the reporter for their contribution. Please
> -note that this tag should not be added without the reporter's permission,
> -especially if the problem was not reported in a public forum. That said,
> -if we diligently credit our bug reporters, they will, hopefully, be
> -inspired to help us again in the future.
> +The Reported-by tag is to give credit to people who find bugs and report them.
> +Please note that if the bug was reported in private, then ask for permission
> +first before using the Reported-by tag.
As the guy who wrote the original text, I think this is an
improvement...but can we get a version that retains the motivation for
crediting bug reporters in the first place?
Thanks,
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-28 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-11 12:31 [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: default to "y" in Kconfig Paul Bolle
2014-02-11 12:53 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-02-11 13:01 ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-11 13:17 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-02-13 23:22 ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-14 9:30 ` [patch] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Reported-by tags and permission Dan Carpenter
2014-02-14 23:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-10-28 13:04 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2014-10-28 16:58 ` Jason Cooper
2014-10-28 17:41 ` Jonathan Corbet
2014-10-29 10:01 ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2014-10-29 12:57 ` Jonathan Corbet
2014-10-29 15:50 ` Rob Landley
2014-02-12 0:09 ` [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: default to "y" in Kconfig Martin Walch
2014-02-12 0:25 ` Paul Bolle
2014-02-12 0:37 ` Paul Bolle
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