Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Jan,


On 02/06/17 10:32, Jan Iversen wrote:

> The gerrit allows people with committer status, to push patches for other people. In that case the email addr, from the person pushing becomes committer email, and the email from from patch owner becomes the author.
>
> To do this please remember to use —author and —author-email in the commit statement.

Thank you, but I knew that already.

(Please note, that your mailer mangles `--` to `—`.

> No-committers cannot push patches on behalf of of others, because it would require 3 emails addresses in git (the email who merges the patch (the committer), the one who submitted the patch (the committer) and the author).

I don’t see how that is required. In Gerrit, it would still be clear, 
who pushed the patch (owner).

As written, Signed-off-by lines would be a solution, if you want to 
record that information.

> I am happy to help you push the patch, with the correct author.

Please tell me how. Do you want me send the patch to the mailing list?


Kind regards,

Paul Menzel