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> On 28 Jul 2021, at 12:50, Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> this was also my understanding. GLEP 76 applies to everyone -- no exception and during discussion we explicit agreed that it's better to reject any contribution from individual(s) who cannot do the sign-off for whatever reason. |
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> Keep in mind: Whoever will proxy such a commit will be 100% responsible in the end. For purely self-protection reasons nobody should proxy a commit he/she doesn't understand, doesn't know the origin or in general has any doubts about. _You_ will be responsible for this because _you_ introduced the commit in Gentoo. |
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Agreed, but s/commit/contribution/? |
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> That said, an individual who doesn't want to do the sign-off for whatever reason could also contribute without getting attribution if contributor will find a developer who is willing to do this (=what happens for most small proposed bug fixes via b.g.o for example). |
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Right. |
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Part of the reason why I'm keen on this proposal is that there's no practical difference between accepting a patch on Bugzilla and re-committing it under my own name and just merging their PR. I suppose if we're clear on guidelines, |
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dropping signoffs where people admit their names are fake would be okay, but it still feels like extra work for developers when merging PRs. |
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best, |
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sam |
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