We use this: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Internally. I was just extending it to quagga-dev. I think 'Signed-off-by' has a valid meaning in that we are certifying a chain of ownership for licensing purposes, which is not unreasonable. Especially in light of the babel licensing issue that we had earlier this year. donald On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Paul Jakma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, Donald Sharp wrote: > > I disagree that we shouldn't use them though, I think they are good >> especially when someone different is committing them then who authored the >> work. Especially if several people worked on the patch in question. >> > > The problem is that it's a string that gets cargo-culted around the > open-source world, which gets added just cause that seems to be what others > are doing, or cause the patch-herder told you to add it to get your patch > committed (without saying why), or even cause patch-herders are adding on > your behalf apparently! > > So there isn't a reasonably well-understood common understanding of what > its presence signifies, which means is does not serve a purpose. Which > means it is just pure useless overhead at present. > > If there are things you think 'SOB' is signifying and need, state what > they are and we'll figure out an actual meaningful way to achieve that. > > regards, > -- > Paul Jakma [email protected] @pjakma Key ID: 64A2FF6A > Fortune: > "MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into > the smallest amount of thoughts." > -- Winston Churchill >
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