Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to give credits to who sponsored the patch

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:23:48AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> Just adding one data point here, without judging on the merits of this
>> proposal. I've been requested previously by customers to increase their
>> visibility in the kernel development statistics, and the way we found to
>> do so was to sign-off patches with
>> 
>> Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+customer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> (where "customer" is to be replaced with the customer name).
>
> I quite like Sponsored-by: but yet another approach could be the
> same as that used by those of us whole use personal email addresses
> while being employed by someone.  So my SoB is:
>
> Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> but you might have (eg)
>
> Laurent Pinchard (Coca-Cola) <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> and then when working for another sponsor:
>
> Laurent Pinchard (Ford) <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Just an observation, git shortlog -s/-se groups/distinguishes,
respectively, the author and sponsor in Laurent's approach. Not so with
Matthew's approach.

Probably depends on the POV which approach this favors. ;)


BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center