[RFC PATCH 0/1] Attempt to add Sponsored-by tag

[Giulio Benetti]

Hello All,

working as a consultant for some companies it happens to end up in having
patches that the final customer could be reluctant to send upstream for
many reasons. One of these reason is that at the moment he would not gain
visibility except being added in the commit log as Cc: as far as I know.

What I've been pointed to by someone is "Sponsored by:" that is not a real
tag and it's been used not that often, for example here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=73c289bac05919286f8c7e1660fcaf6ec0468363
And as you know better than me:
$ git log --grep="Sponsored by:"

As explained in the commit log of the patch this is an attempt to define a
standard Sponsored-by: tag including a method of acknowledge on sponsor's side.
The goal is to possibly increase upstreamed patches giving the chance to the
sponsors to gain visibility.

I hope someone likes the idea and that someone could help me to improve the
description in the patch because I'm not an English mother language.

Best regards
--
Giulio Benetti
CEO&CTO@Benetti Engineering sas

Giulio Benetti (1):
  docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to give credits to who
    sponsored the patch

 Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)

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