On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:56:25 +0100 Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 12/03/2026 19:54, Stephen Hemminger: > > Add Co-developed-by to the recognized tag pattern and tag > > sequence order in check-git-log.sh. > > Why using such tag? Signed-off-by is not enough? > > The tags were inherited from the kernel development process.  Signed-off-by is the DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin) attestation. It says "I certify that I have the right to submit this code under the project's license. Co-developed-by explicitly marks someone as a co-author of the patch. Without it, there's only one author recorded in the git metadata. I just wanted check-git-log.sh to be quiet if it was used. The Co-developed-by is new, and probably came about because some people need/want to have their contributions recorded in the git statistics. Silly corporate overlords count contributions and it matters to them... PS: If DPDK was exactly following the kernel process, every time a patch was merged into a sub-tree it would get a Signed-off-by from a maintainer. Because the maintainer is validating that the submitter had the correct rights.
