2013/1/8 Radu Moisan <[email protected]>: > > On 01/08/2013 04:57 PM, Burton, Ross wrote: >> >> On 8 January 2013 15:01, Radu Moisan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am pretty sure that I added a 'Signed-off-by:' field to my patch but >>> it is missing in the commit. Other patches don't have the signed-off-by >>> of the original author neither. >>> >>> Was this removal done on purpose? >>> >>> >>> I had to port the patch manually so I guess it got lost then. Do we want >>> to >>> have Sign-off-by from author as well? >> >> By the time the patches land in oe-core there'll have been a lot of >> rebasing and merging as I don't intend to see a series that contains >> fixes in oe-core. We should ensure that everyone who contributed to >> meta-oe gets a credit in the series. >> > No question about that, the question was whether to add Sign-off-by from the > author itself. I know that we are doing it like that right now, but I don't > understand it's reasoning. Being the author of a patch what would be the > point in adding a Sign-off-by with the same name? I can agree either way, no > question about that, just want it to get it clear why we do it like we do > it. > > Radu
This is part of the Linux Kernel patch workflow: "To improve tracking of who did what, especially with patches that can percolate to their final resting place in the kernel through several layers of maintainers, we've introduced a "sign-off" procedure on patches that are being emailed around." see: http://kerneltrap.org/files/Jeremy/DCO.txt -- Regards Samuel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
