Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Fri May 18 04:43:40 UTC 2018


On 17 May 2018 at 21:15, Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> The FreeBSD project could help by asking committers to qualify
>> "Sponsored by" lines to indicate which participant(s) is(are) sponsored,
>> in way that is equivalent to the way that the actual work itself is
>> customarily attributed.
>
> This sounds reasonable, so I suggest that you submit a
> patch to the ports handbook that describes it for maintainers
> and committers.

One thing to note: FreeBSD has a custom patch to subversion to detect
"ORGANIZATION_NAME" and automatically append it to the default
template. This is likely why its getting added in unexpected places.

-- 
Eitan Adler


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