Patch Attribution

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 10:54 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 10:52 AM Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Hello!
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>> I haven't (that I recall) seen any particular guidance one way or the
>> other, but what's the general feeling on "Submitted by" for patches
>> that come in via Bugzilla without commit metadata vs. committing
>> locally with --author="Name <email>"?
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>> I did this with d36b5db and didn't receive any complaints, but I'm
>> curious if we should be more actively promoting setting the author
>> correctly whether the patch came in with it or not. I noted that
>> Warner's meta doc[0] lists "Submitted-by" which is where my
>> uncertainty comes from.
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> My document should be updated. I think what you did is fine, and we should
> document it as best practice.
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If you write something, I'll land it :).  We should also consider what to
do for code we pull in from NetBSD, etc.