Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages
Kurt Jaeger
lists at opsec.eu
Fri May 18 18:20:05 UTC 2018
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?
What change would be needed ? There's already a Sponsored by field ?
The custom patch is here:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/subversion/files/extra-patch-fbsd-template?revision=411397&view=markup
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