Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: whitelist Originally-by: signature

[Eugeniu Rosca]

Hi Jonathan,

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:29:43AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:46:27 +0100
> Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:09:17AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 16:02 +0100, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:  
> > > > Oftentimes [1], the contributor would like to honor or give credits [2]
> > > > to somebody's original ideas in the submission/reviewing process. While
> > > > "Co-developed-by:" and "Suggested-by:" (currently whitelisted) could be
> > > > employed for this purpose, they are not ideal.  
> > > 
> > > You need to get the use of this accepted into Documentation/process
> > > before adding it to checkpatch  
> > 
> > If the change [*] makes sense to you, I can submit an update to
> > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> 
> So there appear to be 89 patches with Originally-by in the entire Git
> history, which isn't a a lot; there are 3x as many Co-developed-by tags,
> which still isn't a huge number.  I do wonder if it's worth recognizing
> yet another tag with a subtly different shade of meaning here?  My own
> opinion doesn't matter a lot, but I'd like to have a sense that there is
> wider acceptance of this tag before adding it to the docs.

I will give a real-life example. Say, I have some patches in my
local tree and they've been developed by somebody who is no longer
interested/paid to upstream those.

I first submit those patches with the original authorship, plus my SoB.
Then, the reviewers post their findings. I put my time into fixing those
and re-testing the patch or the entire series. The final patch/series
may look totally different compared to the original one.

Which way would you suggest to give credits to the original author?
I personally think that "Co-developed-by:" conveys the idea/feeling of
"teaming up" with somebody, which doesn't happen in my example.

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Best Regards,
Eugeniu