Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:23:57PM CEST: > The git pages are clear that S-O-B has project-dependent > interpretation. Coreutils currently doesn't even use it (the only > people with commit privileges to the master coreutils.git have FSF > copyright, and it is assumed that they are each trustworthy enough > to do due diligence in verifying that patches from other > contributors meet copyright rules, without relying on any markup in > the commit message itself). > > But if we wanted, we could adopt a policy that S-O-B on GNU projects > using the gitlog-to-changelog conversion implies (partial) > authorship, above and beyond the --author.
Except that the autotools project logs contain lots of S-O-B entries which explicitly do not have that particular meaning. :-/ Cheers, Ralf
