Hi Josh
On 20/12/2023 17:42, Josh Soref wrote:
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.
Thanks for this, it looks good and would be a useful addition to v2 of
your patch series.
Best Wishes
Phillip
