================ Comment at: docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst:320-322 @@ +319,5 @@ +* `Attribution of Changes`_ should be in a separate line, after the end of + the body, as simple as "Patch by John Doe.". This is how we officially + handle attribution, and there are automated processes that rely on this + format. + ---------------- rsmith wrote: > If we want to officially support such processes, we should be very explicit > as to exactly what format they're looking for. Presumably, it's a > case-insensitive match for the string "patch by "? I'm not being specific about the process of identifying it for a very special reason: we don't need to.
Regular expressions can be quite powerful in detecting patters, and any current script can already deal with all the variations we already have, so there's no reason to be explicit on the format. However, names can be very hard to parse, especially international names or abbreviations, and trying to get a consensus on that would be impossible. So we rely on common sense. The most used "automated" process right now is to "grep for someone's name on the git log". So what "patch by" string looks like is irrelevant, including capitalization, exclamation marks, or others. http://reviews.llvm.org/D8197 EMAIL PREFERENCES http://reviews.llvm.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
