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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: phajdan.jr@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:31:45
Message-Id: 20130409193139.GB10952@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean by "Michał Górny"
1 On 23:41 Sat 06 Apr , Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Optionally, after the last paragraph you can add a few lines with tags
3 > in form of 'Tag: value'. AFAICS git itself uses only
4 > 'Signed-off-by' but you can find more tags in various 'submitting
5 > patches' docs.
6 >
7 > 'Signed-off-by' lists the one responsible for the patch. Some upstreams
8 > require that line, some take over authorship of patches if you don't
9 > add it (like X.org), some just hate it :).
10 >
11 > The X.org wiki lists also 'Fixes' for bugtracker URL [2] and a few tags
12 > for reviewing patches [3] (those are probably not useful for us).
13
14 This is the part that would be most useful to document more. Suggesting
15 which tags would be valuable to include. Fixes, Reviewed-by,
16 Signed-off-by, etc.
17
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Donnie
21
22 Donnie Berkholz
23 Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com>
24 Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>