Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages

[Eitan Adler]

On 18 May 2018 at 11:20, 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?
>
> What change would be needed ? There's already a Sponsored by field ?

My point is that the custom patch pre-fills the field, which is why
submitters often see it filled when they don't expect it: the
committer doesn't do it by hand.



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Eitan Adler