Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add Co-Developed-by to signature tags | From | Jorge Ramirez <> | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:54:48 +0100 |
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On 12/14/18 18:39, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 22:58 +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 08:27:33AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: >>> Is it really important to specify things like 75% / 25% >>> authorship crediting? >> IDK how that ratio came up into this discussion ? > How does one tell when a co-developed-by: person > should be notated or blamed for a defective commit? > > git blame shows only 1 author. > > > > co-developed is simply about crediting a piece of work, something which is intrinsically connected to the philosophy of open source. I could name a number of papers but one that comes to my mind is a work from Pekka Himanen, The Hacker Ethic...[1993]. anyway, so while sign-of is of a practical nature, co-developed is more of a social one. at least that is my understanding.
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