Elijah Newren wrote:
> Yeah, well it appears that those of us who have been here in Rome for
> a while aren't a fan of it anymore either; see also Junio's response
> in this thread about that.
Right.
> [Josh Soref <jsoref@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:]
> > Given that Noticed-by is more common than Co-authored-by, I have a
> > hard time arguing that it shouldn't be included.
>
> Not if you look at the last three years; there Co-authored-by is more
> than 17 times more common than Noticed-by.
> Given the large drop-off in usage of the Noticed-by trailer, I'd
> suggest just leaving it out.
> Perhaps replace
>
> You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
> such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
>
> with
>
> While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we
> encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project
> highlighted above.
>
> ?
Let's have some fun (inception):
commit eac2211332f754c5f4127a58aafb9882bfe939e8
Author: Josh Soref <jsoref@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Dec 20 12:34:54 2023 -0500
SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
There seems to be consensus amongst the core Git community on a working
set of common trailers, and there are non-trivial costs to people
inventing new trailers (research to discover what they mean/how they
differ from existing trailers) such that inventing new ones is generally
unwarranted and not something to be recommended to new contributors.
Suggested-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 32e9023877..58dfe40504 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -358,4 +358,5 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
-You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
-such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
+While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we
+encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project
+highlighted above.
