[U-Boot-Users] Sign-off policy

[Ben Warren]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 09:00 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Ben Warren <bwarren at qstreams.com> wrote:
> > Wolfgang,
> >
> > I apologize in advance for not knowing more about this.
> >
> > Do you want custodians to add a 'signed-off-by' to patches (via the
> > --signoff switch to 'git-am').  I assume yes, since it adds
> > traceability, but of course I don't want to imply authorship for
> > somebody else's hard work.
> 
> Yes, we've pretty much adopted the Linux kernel signoff policy
> 
> Reviews should reply on the mailing list with 'Acked-by' lines
> 
> Wherever possible, original authors should sign off their patches also
> 
> Commits should show original author in the 'author' field and include
> all sign off/ack lines.
> 
> g.
> 
That's what I thought, but around here you make assumptions at your own
peril...

Ben