markus schnalke wrote: >[2010-12-14 12:29] Oliver Kiddle <[email protected]> >> Any objections if I apply those? Doesn't git have some ways to preserve >> details of the actual author of a patch? Or better still, could someone >> give Meillo permissions on the git repository. > >I don't need permissions now as I will be offline from Friday on (will >write a mail related to that soon), also I think I don't want >permissions currently. I feel better if you apply patches I propose. > >But I do miss my name on stuff I had been involved in. This surely >affects anyone who contributes in any way. Adding names to commit >messages or the changelog is sufficient IMO.
I think we should just use the usual git commit message conventions here, which support having the author of a change and its committer be different people. There's also the "Signed-off-by: foo" set of conventions. So if people without commit access submit patches to this list using git-format-patch/git-send-email then people with commit access can easily apply them with git am, and the author attribution is preserved. On the future of the ChangeLog -- I agree that with a git commit log there's no point in manually updating it. We should probably consider having an automated update from the git log for releases when we roll tarballs. -- PMM _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
