On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 06:29:39PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 17:22, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Currently we have a short paragraph saying that patches must include > > a Signed-off-by line, and merely link to the kernel documentation. > > The linked kernel docs have a lot of content beyond the part about > > sign-off an thus are misleading/distracting to QEMU contributors. > > Thanks for this -- I've felt for ages that it was a bit awkward > that we didn't have a good place to link people to for the fuller > explanation of this. > > > This introduces a dedicated 'code-provenance' page in QEMU talking > > about why we require sign-off, explaining the other tags we commonly > > use, and what to do in some edge cases. > > The version of the kernel SubmittingPatches we used to link to > includes the text "sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions". > This new documentation doesn't say anything either way about > our approach to pseudonyms. I think we should probably say > something, but I don't know if we have an in-practice consensus > there, so maybe we should approach that as a separate change on > top of this patch.
Well given we referred to kernel previously then I guess that's the concensus, no? > So for this patch: > > Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > > thanks > -- PMM
