Re: [Quilt-dev] Document signed-off-by tag?

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Jean Delvare <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 March 2011 04:48:53 pm Josh Boyer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noticed a tendency to include the Signed-off-by tag when
>> submitting patches now.  I'm going to assume that the intention of
>> that is the same as the S-o-b tag for the Linux kernel.  However,
>> perhaps something should be added to the quilt sources to indicate
>> what it's used for and why it's needed?
>>
>> If so, putting it into a Contributing or SubmittingPatches file would
>> be fairly easy to do.
>
> I did it only because I'm used to it, contributing to the Linux kernel
> on a regular basis. I didn't mean to make it a requirement, not even a
> recommendation.

That's fine.  If you don't want to make S-o-b required for quilt
there's no major need to.  I personally think the Reported-by and
Reviewed-by tags are good to use even in the absence of S-o-b.  Maybe
those could be documented and encouraged?

josh