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

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:40:59 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Personally, I would respond "I'm sorry, but the only advertising
> space we offer are Copyright headers (for employees) and
> "user+customer@..." or "name (customer) user@..." (for contractors).

+1

> And this is a separate tag, so it's harder for the analysis tools
> (whose output your customers must be interested in, too?) to
> match the tag to the actual Author/Reviewer/...

I think that's a key point. Having a separate tag denote the sponsor
would make analysis a lot harder. We'd need to start writing parsers
with much more context awareness.