[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Samuel Ortiz wrote:

> - Developement process: Jon Corbet's article about our changelog raised
>   one interesting question: How can we better track how single SOB
>   patches are getting merged ? Should maintainers add their SOB when
>   they pull from subsystems maintainers (If they can) ? This is
>   something I care about from both my MFD and NFC maintainer
>   perspectives as I both pull from MFD sub maintainers and am John
>   Linville's NFC sub maintainer.

This is difficult ... I think that in some sense merging from subsystem 
maintainer tree can be viewed as an "implicit" Signoff, although this 
hasn't been formalized anywhere.

I am afraid there is no way git could handle this easily without rebasing.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs