[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Suggest to use Signed-off-by when sending patch

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

Thanks very much Kevin!

One comment:  When submitting patches to Xen, the Signed-off-by
line says that you as the developer are certifying a number of things.
Please ensure that you understand and that your company agrees with:

http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_dco.html 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tian, Kevin [mailto:kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 7:47 PM
> To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); Keir Fraser
> Subject: Suggest to use Signed-off-by when sending patch
> 
> Now many developers are active and making great contribution 
> on this mailing list.  After discussing with Dan, we suggest 
> everyone to use Signed-off-by when sending out your patch and 
> especially with a brief description within your patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by is introduced by Linus to track who makes the 
> patch originally and the path that patch gets 
> reviewed/changed, and thus it's also generally required in 
> xen community. It's easy to note that all xen branches 
> (except xen-ia64-unstable) conform to this style. Since this 
> sign is an indicator to the originator, Dan won't help add it 
> if missing and will ask for resubmission later. Also, this is 
> the sign to preserve your credit for effort on this patch. ;-)
> 
> Most time the content in the mail body is verbose for 
> background / description / discussion / etc. which will take 
> Dan's extra time to summarize. So a short/precise description 
> about the patch is better to be added into the patch together 
> with the Signed-off-by. Usually if you work on hg repository, 
> it's easy since you are requested to input description when 
> commit the patch and then later "hg export" can generate 
> exact style here. If you generate the patch by yourself with 
> "diff" directly, it's also easy to use vi after creating 
> patch to add the description info.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
> 

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