From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04A6C71145 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2023 23:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238674AbjHWXWC (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:22:02 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46432 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238480AbjHWXVa (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:21:30 -0400 Received: from smtpcmd12132.aruba.it (smtpcmd12132.aruba.it [62.149.156.132]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2032DE66 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.50.162] ([146.241.122.243]) by Aruba Outgoing Smtp with ESMTPSA id YxADqkv3LgpIyYxADqIrFg; Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:21:26 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=aruba.it; s=a1; t=1692832886; bh=x0NVR7vwQ6ndFSL0EODyBoG3HOFACX32W7eFtOgox6o=; h=Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:From:Content-Type; b=a1ZTWOcKsMdWuP4XfrphtrdvwbKjmQqDeOoT2bIIxasKEhwkCKLU+1S+7FEXsl15f QZ+q2tuFYncfKePPIdYH69lxyQETZ4x6qv5lwRbOgrV2WiVndPaVYKkf0kSp2cqt98 OMKhaCG43KVVbdO1+474FQye/3dQZbGGftbiH4H8IQsduNrwGsDm2segl3/HsxJdip IfiuU4PIe49clyT3cStPMPI4Xz8SXbJocMNAA0q7yMncadQrMB4M7SAiBP1vstnWsn jI5i4hHtGO43kSGFxI8uBtUZJNY70ySO2oLWVuyEaPAWr/hcnqnIP5fIYXX6JIisws 0Wr9xUFFBB2Tg== Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:21:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.14.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] docs: submitting-patches: Add Sponsored-by tag to give credits to who sponsored the patch Content-Language: en-US To: =?UTF-8?Q?Toke_H=c3=b8iland-J=c3=b8rgensen?= , Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Laurent Pinchart , Jonathan Corbet , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20230817220957.41582-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com> <20230817220957.41582-2-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com> <20230817232348.GC1175@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> <28289906-4fd1-26aa-b1c4-eb393ac52d48@benettiengineering.com> <878ra4bv9s.fsf@toke.dk> From: Giulio Benetti In-Reply-To: <878ra4bv9s.fsf@toke.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfFU6h4hWZ1lmhkaj0/cme0+g6GNzVqgxn10kCuOXhGdA2MajY9O1PW9MF22NcAT8upk08Op6mUQFUJxJZ4CsLHsDVMGMpw0dtdlqWF8vz/GArOQ46f2D ZG9+IM2/oAZqbLTmu4dbi7XRGHTOWgfF6LlRPEyz0Zc7us1eAuF9r4zD0qKjid4//wlQ+lZBHAb1SejT98GZcIztwZh/Rn8gBkKSy1PwF4HsUtuUK0ubSE1f ACHZz+/BepJU32riEGdhKcBimv4TX4uyvADS5Go1jdIBAmX2PIa5YVYtV4SmaY29RMHSbkhgndSGg1042+nxWjm2p9z70pl4wsno58pJvG8db+h+kGPO/nE6 +qMqN5bykjZfPQ9jXt0U6S7UXXD6GzgpV3c1asqSn06uqNBEed4QFySVvhtgHewrpbFTuo6O22kFOmp2JMUyk4zbbJkg9w== Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Toke, All, On 21/08/23 11:27, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: [ SNIP ] >> >> This is also causing more work for maintainers: now they have to check >> if any Sponsored-by tags are present, and track if there is a response >> with a matching Acked-by tag... >> >> And obviously they should postpone applying the patch until a >> confirmation response is sent... which may never happen... > > Yeah, definitely not going to track that. I'm pretty agnostic to the tag > itself, but please don't put the burden of validity testing of it on > maintainers... yes, I've realized only later what could this imply for Maintainers and for Customers too in the end. Thank you for replying! Best regards -- Giulio Benetti CEO&CTO@Benetti Engineering sas