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

[Giulio Benetti]

Hello Jacub, All,

On 21/08/23 16:57, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.

yes. There are already 2 ways to give credits I was not aware and I
will go with one of those.

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