Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:30:54 +0200 |
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On Monday, July 29, 2013 02:17:34 PM John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > That said we have the same issue with commits with just two SOB tags if > > a maintainer applies a patch that nobody has responded to. Are they going to > > be regarded as "suspicious" too now? > > > > And what about trusting maintainers? If Linus trusts them enough to pull from > > them, why can't everybody else trust them enough to assume that they don't do > > bad things on purpose? > > Not just Linus -- it's 'turtles all the way down' here. As someone > else suggested, a Singed-off-by in the merge commit should suffice > here. Although, I haven't always made a habit of adding S-o-b to > merge commits either...
An SOB in the merge doesn't provide any additional information that can't be retrieved from git, unless you use a different e-mail address for the sign-off. :-)
Rafael
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