[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process
Jason Cooper
jason at lakedaemon.net
Mon Jul 29 10:40:32 UTC 2013
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:31:37PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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.
And that breaks workflows where eg sub-maintainer and maintainer both
contribute to linux-next. commit-id's _must_ match. As an example, our
mvebu tree and arm-soc both contribute to linux-next and arm-soc pulls
our branches.
Perhaps the merge commit is the place for this?
thx,
Jason.
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