One other thing. I also review the due-to’s in changes.xml to look for 
potential committers. Having people who are already committers there just 
muddies the waters.

So as a general rule I would ask that committers refrain from listing 
themselves on the due-to attribute.

Ralph

> On Aug 26, 2016, at 4:37 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Now you have gotten way off topic.
> 
> See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/changes-report.html#a2.6.2 
> <http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/changes-report.html#a2.6.2>. When you 
> make a commit, the way you give yourself public credit for the work is via 
> the dev attribute. That shows up in the “By” column.  When you want to give 
> thanks to a contributor you add the due-to attribute and then the plugin adds 
> the “Thanks to” to the description of the change.  It just looks weird for 
> you to be thanking yourself for the change as you are already getting the 
> credit in the “By” column and the fact that no one else is being thanked.
> 
> By the same token, we always want to recognize contributors for their 
> patches. So they should always be specified in the “due-to”. Even if you 
> collaborate I still prefer to leave myself off as I want to encourage people 
> to keep contributing patches.
> 
> Ralph
> 
>> On Aug 26, 2016, at 4:16 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I think we should sign tags. By signing a tag, everything up to that point 
>> is verifiable via sha1 hashes. I'm not sure if the maven release plugin does 
>> this already, but it would be nice.
>> 
>> On 26 August 2016 at 18:13, Gary Gregory <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> We don't gpg-sign commits, so it wouldn't really matter. It's more useful in 
>> larger projects where you have a hierarchy of project leaders involved.
>> 
>> Should we sign commits?
>> 
>> Gary
>>  
>> 
>> On 26 August 2016 at 18:02, Gary Gregory <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Are you suggesting we augment the changes.xml model to reflect the 3rd attr?
>> 
>> G
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Git has 3 distinctions though: author, committer, and signed off by (which 
>> is optional).
>> 
>> On 26 August 2016 at 18:00, Gary Gregory <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Maybe we can use the dev attr for the person who commits and the due-to attr 
>> as the actual author; kind of like git's distinction.
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> What about when you collaborate with a contributor? For example, a 
>> half-finished patch.
>> 
>> On 26 August 2016 at 17:47, Gary Gregory <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Copy-paste. Would you rather it does not show up with a due-to?
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Gary,
>> 
>> I am noticing that you have marked several items in changes.xml as “due-to” 
>> yourself?  Why are you doing that? Traditionally, we have omitted that when 
>> a committer does the work as it shows up as you making the commit in the 
>> report.
>> 
>> Ralph
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