Fredrik Gustafsson <iv...@iveqy.com> writes: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:53:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I'd first suggest to employ "icase" to unify *-By and *-by. Perhaps >> we would want a recommended list somewhere in SubmittingPatches to >> discourage people from getting too creative? > > There's already such list in SubmittingPatches, so there's already quite > a few to choose from: > > Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please > don't hide your real name. > > If you like, you can put extra tags at the end: > > 1. "Reported-by:" is used to credit someone who found the bug that > the patch attempts to fix. > 2. "Acked-by:" says that the person who is more familiar with the > area the patch attempts to modify liked the patch. > 3. "Reviewed-by:", unlike the other tags, can only be offered by > the reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the > patch is ready for application. It is usually offered only after > a detailed review. > 4. "Tested-by:" is used to indicate that the person > applied the patch and found it to have the desired effect. > > You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage such as > "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
Hmph, the first step might be to drop that last sentence, I guess, if we consider this a "mess" and if we want to clean it up. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
