On 2024-11-09 04:10, Dragan Simic wrote:
On 2024-11-08 20:12, Dan Williams wrote:
Dragan Simic wrote:
I'm fully aware that we may be reluctant to supporting additional
tags,
because we may then end up with a whole bunch of strange tags that
might
be a bit hard to understand and use properly, but I think that adding
Helped-by to the supported tag list may actually be a good thing to
do.
As described above, Helped-by fits very well between the Suggested-by
tag and the Co-developed-by + Signed-off-by pair of tags, and I think
that providing the right level of attribution may be beneficial.
Patch attribution is separate from giving thanks. I would much rather
someone take the time to say "Thanks" in the changelog with some
supporting text rather than boil down all the myriad ways to be
thankful
into a generic tag. "git log --grep=Thanks" often yields valuable
details, beyond just attribution, on how people have helped each other
develop this global project of ours. If the introduction of Helped-by
would replace even one authentic "Thank you" note with a generic tag
then it is a net loss for the community.
I do agree that writing "Thanks John for helping with..." in a patch
description would be nice, but unfortunately I've seen multiple times
that people don't enjoy writing their patch descriptions at all, and
just want to "get them out the door" as quickly as possible.
With that in mind, making Helped-by tags supported would allow such
people to at least quickly mention someone they're thankful to, which
actually wouldn't prevent anyone from saying the same more verbosely
in a patch description.
Just checking, are there any further thoughts on this patch?
