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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support
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    On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 09:48 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
    > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:46:41 -0800
    > Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org> wrote:
    > > This isn't what's happening tho. In maintainer land if someone forwards
    > > you a patch then you leave the original author on the patch. They wrote
    > > the patch and your just forwarding it on up the ladder. This isn't the
    > > case with these patches.. I crafted each of the commit I have authorship
    > > on, no one forwarded those commits to me. I'm not taking authorship
    > > credit for any thing I didn't create, although I an giving credit to the
    > > place which gave me the raw material which was Google. From my
    > > experience this is how it's done in Linux ..
    >
    > I don't know why you're even trying to defend this, just admit you were
    > wrong and move on.
    >
    > Trying to claim the author field for these patches for yourself is both
    > misleading and vain. You did not write the code and are therefore not
    > the author, trying to conflate the author and commit fields in this way
    > is so misguided I thought you must be trolling when I first saw this
    > thread.
    >
    > This is not "how it's done in Linux" at all. In this case you're
    > trying to act like a maintainer by collecting patches and forwarding
    > them upstream, so you need to preserve authorship and the s-o-b chain.
    > If you want to take responsibility for the code going forward, great,
    > but don't pollute the logs with bogus author fields that imply you
    > wrote the stuff in the first place.

    I did create these commits. Do you think someone else created the
    commits? There is no commit forwarding happening here.

    Daniel


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