Messages in this thread | | | Date | 25 May 2004 00:01:36 +0200 | Date | Tue, 25 May 2004 00:01:36 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission |
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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:31:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > You're just asking that they read it and confirm to the maintainer > > that they did, right? > > Right. We'd add it to the Documentation directory, and add pointers to it > to anything that mentions the "Signed-off-by:" thing (eg things like > SubmittingPatches). All just to make sure that people are aware of what it > means to say "Signed-off-by:"
Hmm, but it would still take a long time until everybody does this by default (and there will be always people who don't read all the instructions before sending a patch, so it's not that this will stop at some point). Would you require maintainers to reject patches when the signoff lines are missing?
I personally would hate to reject a value bug fix because of a policy like this...
In practice I guess it would end up with that maintainers would spend a lot of time explaining to everybody what this new policy is about and possibly are forced to reject a lot of patches initially.
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