On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > Hi, > > to follow up a little on the "This patch has been sponsored by > Novartis" messages - I have been on a summer internship at Novartis busy > deploying Git and these patches (still quite a few more to come, mostly > for gitweb) have been one of the main outputs of that work. > > However, I'm not sure if acknowledging the Novartis-originated patches > in the log message like this is the best practice and we will understand > if the maintainers will decide to strip these notices when applying the > patches. Usually, this kind of acknowledgement is made by using > "sponsored" email addresses, however mine will probably stop working > shortly after I leave and the only way to read it is, shall we say, > utmostly inconvenient. ;-) Now, Shawn has proposed 'Sponsored-by:' line > at the header footer, which is also an interesting possibility. I'd suggest you do like some people working on the Linux kernel, i.e. use your employer's email address for the Signed-off-by line but use whatever address you prefer for the from/author line. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
