[Libreoffice] Patches by two persons?

Soeren Moeller soerenmoeller2001 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 11:06:49 PST 2011


Thank you for your answers, for now we will alternate the author in
the git patch files, but I will mostly send the mails to this mailing
list. (And we now both have send a mail, confirming that all our
patches are LGPLv3+/MPL)

Best regards
Sören

2011/1/28 Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at novell.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 10:02 +0100, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
>>> Well, we may need to adapt the tools computing the stats and credits to
>>> take this into account. We will need to get all the names pretty easily
>>> from git to get everyone properly thanked. Isn't the sign-off way the
>>> best one?
>>
>>        Signed off typically means, not "I also wrote this", but "I reviewed
>> this, and I certify its origin" - I think we want to retain the latter
>> meaning.
>>
>>        So - I would be inclined to have some different way just for Soeren and
>> his (thus far anonymous) friend ;-) either that - or we encourage them
>> to alternate credits in their patches (which might be easier) :-)
>
> Yeah, I think alternate credit is probably the easiest route here.
>
> Norbert
>
>>
>>        HTH,
>>
>>                Michael.
>>
>> --
>>  michael.meeks at novell.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>>
>>
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