From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264560AbUEYECj (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 00:02:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264571AbUEYECj (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 00:02:39 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:19386 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264560AbUEYECg (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 00:02:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:02:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Matt Mackall cc: Thomas Gleixner , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] Explicitly documenting patch submission In-Reply-To: <20040525034920.GY5414@waste.org> Message-ID: References: <1YUY7-6fF-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <200405242250.38442.tglx@linutronix.de> <20040525034920.GY5414@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 24 May 2004, Matt Mackall wrote: > > Actually, there is a question as to how to sign off on something that > eventually gets rolled into something larger? Simply collect all the > signatories? Yup. This is indeed common for people like Andrew (or anybody else who collects patches). The only sane thing to do is to just merge the signatories from any merged patches. > > Any process that doesn't allow for common sense is just broken, and > > clearly from a _legal_ standpoint it doesn't matter if we track who fixed > > out (atrocious) spelling errors. > > "our" Ahem. "I did that on purpose to make a point". Sure, that's the ticket. Linus "ehh, good save" Torvalds