On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:57:00PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 6/6/05, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > >
> > > There is "From: Dmitry..." in the changelog. Do your script move first
> > > "From:" into author header and delete it from changelog? That would
> > > explain it...
> >
> > Yes. But note how it doesn't even take the "first" From: line, it
> > literally takes the From: line _only_ if that line is the first line in
> > the email body.
> >
>
> A lot of times I see mails getting forwarded to you/Andrew/other
> maintainer by someone without adding a From: or other indication of
> who was the original author, but in almost all cases the original
> author is the one listed as the first Signed-off-by: since authors are
> the first to sign off on a patch, so, wouldn't it make more sense to
> pick the author like this ;
Not necessarily. Re-read what Signed-off-by: is all about and who
may provide that line. You should find that the first Signed-off-by:
line may not be the author themselves, but someone else who is able
to satisfy our requirements.
I think people will just have to accept that there's no way to _always_
_automatically_ get the proper author for every patch. (and that calling
it author in git was probably the first mistake - we never had these
issues with BK which didn't specifically indentify anything as being
the "author" as such.)
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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