From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936935AbdKQWqn (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:46:43 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:48906 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936919AbdKQWqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:46:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:46:33 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Thomas Gleixner , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors Message-ID: <20171117154633.59f657f9@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20171116132309.GA8449@kroah.com> References: <20171116132309.GA8449@kroah.com> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:23:09 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Sometimes a single patch is the result of multiple authors. As git only > can have one "author" of a patch, it is still good to properly give > credit to the other developers of a commit. To address this, document > the "Co-Developed-by:" tag which can be used to show other authors of > the patch. > > Note, these other authors must also provide a Signed-off-by: tag as it > is their work that is being submitted here. So this seems good, and I'm seeing no objections. I can go ahead and apply it and ship it upward. That said, I do think that there should maybe be a mention in submitting-patches.rst as well, since we have a fair amount of discussion of patch tags there. *Someday* we'll have nice organized documentation that doesn't scatter this stuff around, but that's not this day... Thanks, jon