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

[Giulio Benetti]

Hello Toke, All,

On 21/08/23 11:27, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

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> > This is also causing more work for maintainers: now they have to check
> > if any Sponsored-by tags are present, and track if there is a response
> > with a matching Acked-by tag...
> >
> > And obviously they should postpone applying the patch until a
> > confirmation response is sent... which may never happen...
>
> Yeah, definitely not going to track that. I'm pretty agnostic to the tag
> itself, but please don't put the burden of validity testing of it on
> maintainers...

yes, I've realized only later what could this imply for Maintainers and
for Customers too in the end.

Thank you for replying!
Best regards
--
Giulio Benetti
CEO&CTO@Benetti Engineering sas