Re: [PATCH v3 DONOTMERGE] docs: clarify rules wrt tagging other people

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Mon, 2 Dec 2024 09:28:57 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> > +Tagging people requires permission
> > +----------------------------------
> > +
> > +Be careful in the addition of tags to your patches, as all except for Cc:,
> > +Reported-by:, and Suggested-by: need explicit permission of the person named.
> > +For the three aforementioned ones implicit permission is sufficient if the
> > +person contributed to the Linux kernel using that name and email address
> > +according to the lore archives or the commit history -- and in case of
> > +Reported-by: and Suggested-by: did the reporting or suggestion in public.
> > +Note, bugzilla.kernel.org is a public place in this sense, but email addresses
> > +used there are private; so do not expose them in tags, unless the person used
> > +them in earlier contributions.

Hmm... There is another tag that we use without requiring explicit permissions:

	Requested-by:

There are currently 376 occurrences on 6.13-rc1.

This is used when a maintainer or reviewer publicly requests some changes to
be added on a patch series.

Thanks,
Mauro