Re: Tracking and crediting bug reporters
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue May 13 2008 - 12:36:38 EST
Alan Cox wrote:
Those would just default to not being credited. Where is the problem?
We need to be sure that people understand that when submitting patches
they must not put Discovered-by: lines in without asking. This is
essentially a documentation matter which is why I directed the original
reply to Jonathan.
I tend to put the credit in the patch description text, /without/ an
email address by default, since I don't feel as comfortable stamping
users' email addresses into the kernel changelog without their
permission, and (I'm lazy) asking permission is another email
round-trip. So my format is
blah blah blah patch description blah blah blah
blah blah blah patch description blah blah blah
blah blah blah patch description blah blah blah
Bug found by Lucifer Smith.
Signed-off-by: Tejun <tejun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Regards,
Jeff
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