The convention I use is dev is the committer and due-to is the creator of the Jira or PR followed by whomever else touched the code.
Gary On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 20:13 Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > Gary, > > I am wondering why you have recently gotten in the habit of adding > yourself to the due-to field of changes.xml. Historically we have always > used that to give credit to non-committers who provide patches or > significantly contribute to them. As committers we get credit in the > source control and in the dev field of the action entry. It seems over the > top to be giving ourselves credit that way and, in fact, takes away from > the contributions we receive from non-committers as every single change is > due to one of us, even if all we do is commit the patch. > > If we need to vote on this I would vote that committers names should never > appear in the due-to field. > > Ralph >
