Re: [Ksummit-discuss] crediting bug reports and fixes folded into original patch

Joe Perches
2020-12-03T16:56:55Z

On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 05:58 -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> So there are two embedded questions here: firstly, should we be as
> wedded to clean history as we are, because showing the evolution would
> simply solve this? Secondly, if we are agreed on clean history, how
> can we make engagement via email as important as engagement via commit
> for the community managers so the Link tag is enough? I've got to say
> I think trying to add tags to recognize patch evolution is a mistake
> and we instead investigate one of the two proposals above.

I don't care that any trivial style notes I give to anyone
are tracked for posterity.

Who are these 'community managers' that use these?

Signatures are a mechanism for credit tracking isn't great.

One style that seems to have been generally accepted is for
patch revision change logs to be noted below a --- line.

Often that change log will shows various improvements made
to a patch and the people and reasoning that helped make
those improvements.

Perhaps automate a mechanism to capture that information as
git notes for the patches when applied.