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From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Clarify and expand description of --signoff
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:59:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201015215933.96425-1-bkuhn@sfconservancy.org> (raw)

As you know, it's rare that Conservancy offers specific patches upstream to
our member projects, but I've attached a patch that updates the documentation
regarding Signed-Off-By.

While the Git and Linux projects use this specifically to refer to a DCO as
published on the URL provided, other projects have various meanings of
Signed-Off-By, and we noticed in a recent check of Conservancy member
projects that details on it vary.  Ultimately, I don't think Git wants anyway
to opine about the meaning of Signed-off-by for every project that uses Git,
so this documentation change hedges while still explaning and recommending
the DCO used by Linux and Git.

Peff gave me some feedback on this change and we did a bit of redrafting in a
private email thread, but I think this is now ready for public review and
discussion.

I apologize in advance if I've made a mistake in format or form in submitting
this patch; it's my first upstream contribution to Git!  I did try my best to
follow Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt carefully! :)

Bradley M. Kuhn (1):
  Documentation: Clarify and expand description of --signoff

 Documentation/git-commit.txt    | 13 ++++++++-----
 Documentation/merge-options.txt | 13 ++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

-- 
Bradley M. Kuhn - he/him
Policy Fellow & Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy
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             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-15 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-15 21:59 Bradley M. Kuhn [this message]
2020-10-15 21:59 ` [PATCH 1/1] Documentation: Clarify and expand description of --signoff Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-16  0:46   ` Jeff King
2020-10-18 15:13   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-16  1:49 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Philippe Blain
2020-10-16  1:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16  1:59     ` Jeff King
2020-10-16  2:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 19:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-16 20:11           ` Jeff King
2020-10-17  3:00             ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-18 19:08             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-19 15:53               ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-19 18:26                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-19 21:25                   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] clarify and expand description of --signoff & related fixes Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-19 21:25                     ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: clarify and expand description of --signoff Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-19 21:25                     ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: stylistically normalize references to Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-19 22:02                       ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-19 22:17                         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-20  2:31                           ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-20  1:03                         ` [PATCH v3 0/4] clarify meaning of --signoff & related doc improvements in describing Signed-off-by Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-20  1:03                           ` [PATCH v3 1/4] doc: preparatory clean-up of description on the sign-off option Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-20  1:03                           ` [PATCH v3 2/4] Documentation: clarify and expand description of --signoff Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-20 21:44                             ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-20 21:48                               ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-20  1:03                           ` [PATCH v3 3/4] SubmittingPatches: clarify DCO is our --signoff rule Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-20  1:03                           ` [PATCH v3 4/4] Documentation: stylistically normalize references to Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-20 18:52                             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-20 21:33                               ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-20  2:34                           ` [PATCH v3 0/4] clarify meaning of --signoff & related doc improvements in describing Signed-off-by Taylor Blau
2020-10-20 21:28                             ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-20 21:48                               ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-20 22:06                               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-20 23:02                                 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2020-10-19 21:25                     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] SubmittingPatches: clarify DCO is our --signoff rule Bradley M. Kuhn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-10-18 19:49 [PATCH v2 0/3] Claryfing the meaning of the sign-off Junio C Hamano
2020-10-18 19:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] doc: preparatory clean-up of description on the sign-off option Junio C Hamano
2020-10-18 19:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: clarify and expand description of --signoff Junio C Hamano
2020-10-18 19:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] SubmittingPatches: clarify DCO is our --signoff rule Junio C Hamano
2020-10-18 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Claryfing the meaning of the sign-off Taylor Blau

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