[OE-core] Status for "Sponsored by" git tags

Jack Mitchell ml at communistcode.co.uk
Tue Dec 3 17:38:26 UTC 2013


On 03/12/13 17:21, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Henning Heinold
> <heinold at inf.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:43:41AM -0500, Philip Balister wrote:
>>> On 12/03/2013 11:08 AM, Henning Heinold wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> how is the status about using "Sponsored by" git tags. Do we want something
>>>> like that in openemebdded or not?
>>>
>>> What are SPonsored by tags?
>>>
>>> Philip
>>>
>>
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> Sponsored By tags are used by freebsd and some other projects to show which company
>> sponsored the commit
> 
> Urk. Of the top of my head .. that just looks nasty. Signed-off-by:
> already indicates
> a company name, so going further than that is overkill IMHO.
> 
> Bruce
> ..
>>

Indeed, domain addresses in emails usually give the "sponsor" of the
work. No need for more bureaucracy.

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