From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:43:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: <54FDA6B5.8050505@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20150312074511.GB12418@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Duy Nguyen , "Jason St. John" , Christian Couder , Michael J Gruber , David Kastrup , git To: Fredrik Gustafsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 12 19:43:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YW84b-0005k2-K0 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:43:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751616AbbCLSnF (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:43:05 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:65529 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751376AbbCLSnD (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:43:03 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C29F3F6B1; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:43:02 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=jWbi3kDCpU5Ises2AavgM1w4sw0=; b=JBvf6Z zgnro0teci1kO0qW1XwLIHft8JH638IGWRLR3XvGvjpJAsaKT9kGVtYwY5euat5S mU+AgZOCbgnIOGNwwH1dn/4RIyAyjYEmRR7tRUVEz8nikZdzAKn9eiCapJB8iIfZ +OhOgW9eExgo8K983692khBOEXewBoPrLJh1o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=leSof8Eqy61BSzKEasH0z5CoXhU4cIPY g5fF48W2i/0U5Cat/tvYsgNiPRutPz64eNIW6e0AwaELuMvVKiAXhXphItbJayFg EfTR3gq8ck0JUTdBhnijtZV8BCe59rLfrHKVl0n327EWBLdngsfzWOG8Cg+XvMOJ TNd6v9lMufk= Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941113F6B0; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:43:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 098373F6AB; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:43:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20150312074511.GB12418@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> (Fredrik Gustafsson's message of "Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:45:11 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9CC673F6-C8E7-11E4-85F9-A2259F42C9D4-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Fredrik Gustafsson writes: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:53:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I'd first suggest to employ "icase" to unify *-By and *-by. Perhaps >> we would want a recommended list somewhere in SubmittingPatches to >> discourage people from getting too creative? > > There's already such list in SubmittingPatches, so there's already quite > a few to choose from: > > Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please > don't hide your real name. > > If you like, you can put extra tags at the end: > > 1. "Reported-by:" is used to credit someone who found the bug that > the patch attempts to fix. > 2. "Acked-by:" says that the person who is more familiar with the > area the patch attempts to modify liked the patch. > 3. "Reviewed-by:", unlike the other tags, can only be offered by > the reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the > patch is ready for application. It is usually offered only after > a detailed review. > 4. "Tested-by:" is used to indicate that the person > applied the patch and found it to have the desired effect. > > You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage such as > "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:". Hmph, the first step might be to drop that last sentence, I guess, if we consider this a "mess" and if we want to clean it up.