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

[Mats Kärrman]

At Tuesday, December 03, 2013 7:06 PM, Khem Raj [raj.khem at gmail.com] 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.
>>
>> For example
>>
>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-head/commit/da88cadfb7e76ffa35440f16fef51a03935b7775
>>
>
>FreeBSD does not have signed-off-by and so on and use subversion so don’t have git commit -s and so on :)
>if you want to credit someone then mention it in the commit log should be enough IMO
>

Working as a contractor, I can definitely see the point in such a tag. Many people also have a separate e-mail address, e.g. gmail, for public mailing list commits for the sake of spam et.c. However if the preferred way is to use the commit message, that is fine by me.

BR // Mats