Sponsored by: in commit messages

[Stefan Bethke]

Hi there,

I just had another update to a port that I maintain committed. Thanks for that!

However, the commit message contains a Sponsored by line. I'm not sponsored by that company, and neither is the upstream project, AFAICT.

What is the significance of this line?

The port update was mainly mechanical, although it included adding a vuxml entry. At any rate, the submission contained a more specifc entry for vuxml than what got committed. So I'm wondering what the sponsoring actually entails.

From what I have observed over the years, Sponsored by has often indicated significant contributions to important subsystems. Is this impression misguided? Does it simply indicate that the committer working on that commit on sponsored time, no matter the amount of work?


Stefan

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