Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages

John W. O'Brien john at saltant.com
Fri May 18 11:38:19 UTC 2018


On 2018/05/18 00:15, Kurt Jaeger 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. 
> 

Thank you. I will prepare a patch. It seems like it should be against
the Committers' Guide [0], though. Also, since this would apply to trees
besides ports, is there a venue besides this list where I should solicit
feedback?

[0]
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.html#commit-log-message

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