[Piglit] Require Signed-off-by for patches?

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 17:12:12 PST 2013


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Jordan Justen <jljusten at gmail.com> wrote:
> What are the arguments against just following the kernel's
> Signed-off-by practice?

What are the arguments for it?

The kernel's submitting patches documentation says that

 - Signed-off-by: this is a developer's certification that he or she has
   the right to submit the patch for inclusion into the kernel.  It is an
   agreement to the Developer's Certificate of Origin, the full text of
   which can be found in Documentation/SubmittingPatches.  Code without a
   proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.

and

The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the
development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path.

I think we're just getting into Parkinson's law of triviality...


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