On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, Donald Sharp wrote:

I disagree that we shouldn't use them though, I think they are good especially when someone different is committing them then who authored the work. Especially if several people worked on the patch in question.

The problem is that it's a string that gets cargo-culted around the open-source world, which gets added just cause that seems to be what others are doing, or cause the patch-herder told you to add it to get your patch committed (without saying why), or even cause patch-herders are adding on your behalf apparently!

So there isn't a reasonably well-understood common understanding of what its presence signifies, which means is does not serve a purpose. Which means it is just pure useless overhead at present.

If there are things you think 'SOB' is signifying and need, state what they are and we'll figure out an actual meaningful way to achieve that.

regards,
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