[haiku-development] Re: Commit-access for Matt Madia

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:46:00 +0100

On 2010-02-25 at 22:25:35 [+0100], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:20:04 +0100, Ingo Weinhold a écrit :
> > On 2010-02-25 at 17:28:28 [+0100], Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > As for the attribution aspect, with every patch everyone does make
> > > an
> > > effort to credit the patch author in the commit message.
> >
> > I wonder whether there's a standard format for commit messages that
> > allows
> > tools/sites like Ohloh to correctly recognize the actual patch
> > author.
> 
> Possibly the Signed-off-by tags used in linux patches:
> 
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/8329
> 
> if copied to the commit log...

I think it's actually "Author:", while "Signed-off-by:" would be someone 
who revised the patch. I guess it doesn't harm to experiment a bit with it.

CU, Ingo

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