From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqwdA-00075s-CF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2019 04:03:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqwd9-0008SH-HC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2019 04:03:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 10:02:48 +0100 From: Cornelia Huck Message-ID: <20190205100248.54f5d1cd.cohuck@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <9a93a2a0-f352-1fb6-eb27-49f607cd0b97@redhat.com> References: <20190204225542.5597-1-eblake@redhat.com> <9a93a2a0-f352-1fb6-eb27-49f607cd0b97@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Flag suspicious attribution lines List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Philippe =?UTF-8?B?TWF0aGlldS1EYXVkw6k=?= Cc: Eric Blake , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, peter.maydell@linaro.org On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 00:29:14 +0100 Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 wrote: > On 2/4/19 11:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > Flag commit attribution tags that are unusual (often because they > > were a typo), but only as a warning (because sometimes a humorous > > or otherwise useful tag is intentionally supplied). > >=20 > > This picks the 6-most popular tags, each with 700 or more uses (well, > > S-o-b was already checked for case-sensitivity and typos, leaving > > only 5 new tags being checked), as determined by: > > $ git log | sed -n 's/^ *\([A-Za-z-]*-by:\).*/\1/p' | \ > > sort | uniq -c | sort -k1,1n | tail > >=20 > > Most of the rejected lines were obvious typos (among others, we've > > had 4 cases of someone being burnt, based on Singed-off-by; and 2 > > cases of list-reading via an e-reader, based on eviewed-by; there > > are also lines forgetting a space after the ':') or otherwise > > tongue-in-check (3 Approximately-suggested-by). A few lines not > > whitelisted here may be legitimate, but as they are orders of > > magnitude rarer, it is therefore not worth worrying about > > (7 Requested-by, 3 Co-authored-by, 1 Inspired-by, etc.). =20 Hm, wasn't Co-authored-by: actually intended to cover the cases where someone else did write significant parts of the patch? (I cannot point to the source without searching, though...) >=20 > 'Inspired-by' is kinda Zen :) And is from Peter! I also like that one :)