Can I submit patches from my colleagues?

[Hossein Nourikhah]

Hello Jeff,

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 4:17 PM Jeff Huang <jeff at mail.ossii.com.tw> 
wrote:
> Can I submit patches from my colleagues to LibreOffice Gerrit?
> This is our company license statement:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2020-February/084572.html
> If I can do this, how can I do? Thank you.

Yes, you can submit the patches from your colleagues. There are two 
options:

1. Submit patches by yourself on behalf of them with your own email 
address, and add this note in the commit description:

Co-authored-by: ... (Other person's name and email address)

2. Add multiple addresses to your Gerrit account, and submit the patches 
using the email address you want. This is OK as long as the other email 
is available in your Gerrit account. Every email address should be 
verified by the owner.

On the other hand, we would be happy to see the people submit their 
patches by themselves. The disadvantage of using a proxy for sending 
patches is that there would be an indirect communication between the 
reviewer(s) and the author. As you know, the author should get involved 
in the submission process to do the changes and fixes suggested by the 
reviewers before the submission is accepted and merged.

Regards,
Hossein

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