Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 09 May 2010 11:35:16 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] get_maintainer.pl: optionally ignore non-maintainer tags |
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florian@mickler.org wrote: > Using --git to determine who to send a patch to, it is not > reasonable to include people that only reported an issue or tested a > patch. Thus we restrict the candidates to be the one's listed with > Reviewed-By, Signed-Off-By and Acked-By tags. > > Signed-Off-By:'s because that are people who are responsible for the code > in question. > > Reviewed-By:'s because people responsible for the code in question > obviously thought that the review-feedback for this changeset by that > person was valuable. > > The Acked-By: is questionable, but as people listed with this tag > tend to be active linux gatekeepers, false positives are tolerable.
This and "get_maintainer.pl: only list maintainers by default" in conjunction: Reviewed-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> But *don't* record this in the git history because then somebody might think I want to be Cc'd on get_maintainer.pl patches. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- -=-= -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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