Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages

[Eitan Adler]

On 18 May 2018 at 04:40, John W. O'Brien <john at saltant.com> wrote:
> 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?

Its a client side patch of the subversion binary.  I'm not sure the
best way to handle it beyond perhaps changing the template a bit?


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Eitan Adler