Hi Serge,
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:13:54PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:59:40AM -0700, Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > However FYI for next time - you shouldn't really add someone else's
> > Signed-off-by tag anyway. The tag effectively states that a person can
> > agree to the Developer's Certificate of Origin for this patch (see
> > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst), and you can't agree that
> > on behalf of someone else. Generally a maintainer should add this tag
> > for themselves when they apply a patch.
>
> I'm sorry if it seemed like I added Signed-off on your behalf.
That's OK, I didn't think you did it maliciously :)
> I thought the Signed-off also concerns the ones, who participated in
> the patch preparation. Since you suggested the design of the change,
> I've decided to put your name in the Signed-off tag. What shall I use
> in this way then?
In this case Suggested-by might have been a good choice. Reported-by is
also commonly used if someone reported a problem which you created a fix
for.
Section 13 of Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst describes
these tags along with a couple others.
Thanks,
Paul
