Re: [PATCH 0/7] Nexus One Support

[Jesse Barnes]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:46:41 -0800
Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This isn't what's happening tho. In maintainer land if someone forwards
> you a patch then you leave the original author on the patch. They wrote
> the patch and your just forwarding it on up the ladder. This isn't the
> case with these patches.. I crafted each of the commit I have authorship
> on, no one forwarded those commits to me. I'm not taking authorship
> credit for any thing I didn't create, although I an giving credit to the
> place which gave me the raw material which was Google. From my
> experience this is how it's done in Linux ..

I don't know why you're even trying to defend this, just admit you were
wrong and move on.

Trying to claim the author field for these patches for yourself is both
misleading and vain.  You did not write the code and are therefore not
the author, trying to conflate the author and commit fields in this way
is so misguided I thought you must be trolling when I first saw this
thread.

This is not "how it's done in Linux" at all.  In this case you're
trying to act like a maintainer by collecting patches and forwarding
them upstream, so you need to preserve authorship and the s-o-b chain.
If you want to take responsibility for the code going forward, great,
but don't pollute the logs with bogus author fields that imply you
wrote the stuff in the first place.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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