The Eclipse Foundation's intellectual property process requires that contributors who are not committers on the project must add a "Signed-off-by" entry in the commit message to indicate that they (still) understand the terms that they agreed to when they signed the ECA. The intellectual property process does not require this assurance from committers.
It's not wrong for a committer to "Sign-off" a commit. A project team could decide to give it a different meaning when a committers signs-off on a commit. HTH, Wayne On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 3:29 PM Roland Grunberg <rgrun...@redhat.com> wrote: > In a recent review, a discussion came up about whether committers to a > project should be adding the 'Signed-off-by' header to their commits on > that same project. > > I'm assuming it's mandatory for all non-committers to a project as > Gerrit will certainly reject the commit. However, I see plenty of > changes by committers (even recently) that do not contain it so Gerrit > is definitely not enforcing it in this case. Is it implicit from the > committer agreement one would have on file ? Is there any reason to > include one anyways ? (eg. stats being collected from it > that we wouldn't appear in). I could definitely see the argument for > saving a line in the log messages. > > Cheers, > -- > Roland Grunberg > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev > -- Wayne Beaton Director of Open Source Projects | Eclipse Foundation, Inc. <https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2019>
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