From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264921AbUEYPUW (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 11:20:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264912AbUEYPUW (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 11:20:22 -0400 Received: from host-65-117-135-105.timesys.com ([65.117.135.105]:45203 "EHLO kartuli.timesys") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264921AbUEYPTw (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 11:19:52 -0400 Message-ID: <40B3642C.3070504@timesys.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:20:12 -0400 From: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Davide Libenzi , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Sun, 23 May 2004, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > >>Andrew already puts the "From:" thing in the patch comment, so this should >>be simply a matter of replacing "From:" with "Signed-off-by:", preserving >>it in logs, and documenting the thing in the patch submission doc. No? >> >> > >Yes and no. > >Right now it is _Andrew_ that does the From: line from you. In the >sign-off procedure, it would be _you_ who add the "Signed-off-by:" line >for yourself. > >(And then Andrew would sign off on the fact that you signed off). > >Not a big difference, I agree. > > Andrew's From comment is already a little lossy, e.g. most LKSCTP patches show up as from Sridhar or DaveM even though there's a whole subproject of developers working behind Sridhar. I think the proposed process will increase the amount of explicit credit being recognized--a very good thing IMHO, since this is the core currency of our gift culture. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell's sig