Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages

John W. O'Brien john at saltant.com
Fri May 18 11:40:23 UTC 2018


On 2018/05/18 00:43, Eitan Adler wrote:
> 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.
> 

How do you think I should handle that in my forthcoming doc patch? Is
there a related bug I should file against services?

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