Am Freitag, den 26.10.2012, 12:13 -0400 schrieb James McCoy: > 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.
I wasn't aware of the first meaning until Raphael's response. Then I did a research and found both meanings. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
