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

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 18:37 +0100, Henning Heinold wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:21:10PM -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Henning Heinold
> > 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
> 
> But what if it is contractor work, where the commiter has no company email.

Well, in the same way we acknowledge people who helped with a patch, you
can mention people/companies by name in commit messages and I can't see
an issue with that. I don't think it needs a specific tag form though.

Cheers,

Richard