On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 02:31:34PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 25.10.2012, 17:33 -0500 schrieb Raphael Geissert: > > > Please do not sign off your own patches. Your patches will be signed off > > > by the person that applies your patches. > > > > Perhaps we differ on what the sign off means, and that shouldn't cause any > > issue for another person to sign off them as well. > > I found two meaning of signing off patches: > > 1) The signer certifies that he/she have created the patch in question > and take responsibility for the copyright status of the code in > question. > > 2) The signer reviewed the patch and has done some sort of QA. > > We use the second meaning.
We do, along with an optional application of the first. I tend to do both, but not everyone does. I see no reason to request people elide the first type. -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
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