Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add Co-Developed-by to signature tags | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:27:33 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 21:46 +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 07:52:15AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 14:01 +0100, Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz wrote: > > > As per Documentation/process/submitting-patches, Co-developed-by is a > > > valid signature. > > > > > > This commit removes the warning. > > > > Your commit message doesn't match your subject. > > > > A couple variants have been documented and only > > one should actually be used. > > > > $ git grep -i co-developed-by Documentation/process/ > > Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst: - Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer > > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:12) When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-Developed-by: > > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:A Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer > > > > $ git log --grep="co-developed-by:" -i | \ > > grep -ohiP "co-developed-by:" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn > > 80 Co-developed-by: > > 40 Co-Developed-by: > > > > So which should it be? > > > > btw: I prefer neither as I think Signed-off-by: is sufficient. > > OK, but does multiple Signed-off-by: in the commits imply that > the patch was created by all those developers ? > > I don't think so, perhaps this was the reason to introduce > Co-developed-by: tag.
Perhaps, but a sign-off is also a recognition that the patch was passed-through by individuals
Effectively, there's no real difference.
"Co-developed-by:" is just another word for "Authored-by:" where multiple "Authorship" is the thing being notated.
Is it really important to specify things like 75% / 25% authorship crediting?
I don't really care about attribution so the concept is not particularly valuable to me.
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