Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add Co-Developed-by to signature tags

[Himanshu Jha]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 07:52:15AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 14:01 +0100, Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz wrote:
> > As per Documentation/process/submitting-patches, Co-developed-by is a
> > valid signature.
> > 
> > This commit removes the warning.
> 
> Your commit message doesn't match your subject.
> 
> A couple variants have been documented and only
> one should actually be used.
> 
> $ git grep -i co-developed-by Documentation/process/
> Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst: - Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:12) When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-Developed-by:
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:A Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
> 
> $ git log --grep="co-developed-by:" -i | \
>   grep -ohiP "co-developed-by:" | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
>      80 Co-developed-by:
>      40 Co-Developed-by:
> 
> So which should it be?
> 
> btw: I prefer neither as I think Signed-off-by: is sufficient.

OK, but does multiple Signed-off-by: in the commits imply that
the patch was created by all those developers ?

I don't think so, perhaps this was the reason to introduce
Co-developed-by: tag.


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Himanshu Jha
Undergraduate Student
Department of Electronics & Communication
Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology