Hello FreeBSD Ports, The Committer's Guide section on Commit Log Messages [0], doesn't cover the use of the "Sponsored by" key word. As a non-committer contributor, it only recently occurred to me to wonder what work that credit is intended to represent, and whether some light definition would be helpful to reduce ambiguity.
When a committer credits a sponsor of theirs, from which the contributor received no sponsorship, the portrayal feels a little awkward. Does this strike the list as a problem, and if so, how ought it be solved? To make this concrete, allow me to illustrate the situation. Alice, working on her own time, prepares and contributes a patch. Bob, who works for Acme Corp, reviews and commits the patch on company time. The commit message includes "Sponsored by: Acme Corp". Alice eagerly awaits her check from Acme Corp. Should the commit message have read "Sponsored by: Acme Corp (Bob)"? This could be extensible to multiple sponsorships. If, instead, Alice prepares the patch having received a grant to do so from Best Sys Dev, the commit message could state "Sponsored by: Acme Corp (Bob), Best Sys Dev (Alice)". [0] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.html#commit-log-message PS: I realize that this issue transcends ports, but it's not clear where I should send this instead, and this list seems like it would have a reasonably high concentration of people with a stake in the discussion. -- John W. O'Brien OpenPGP keys: 0x33C4D64B895DBF3B
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