[email protected] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > Please don't use "Reported by ..." for people who have copyright > assignments for IU. For other peoples changes use the following (from > GNU Coding Standards): > > 2002-07-14 John Doe <[email protected]> > > * sewing.c: Make it sew. > > rather than this: > > 2002-07-14 Usual Maintainer <[email protected]> > > * sewing.c: Make it sew. Patch by [email protected]. > > > If the person in question does not have copyright papers, please use > the following format: > > 2002-07-14 John Doe <[email protected]> (tiny change) > > * sewing.c: Make it sew. > > But only if the person does not have copyright papers for IU.
I normally use "Reported by" when _I_ wrote something based on a report from someone (and I wanted to give credit to the reporter). This style is used by gnulib, coreutils and other projects. What would you recommend instead of "Reported by" for that situation? None of the above styles seems appropriate to me, as it would then look like the reporter wrote the patch (be it tiny or not). I'm not sure if some of my ChangeLog entries are the ones you are thinking of or not... /Simon
