Re: Who uses Signed-off-by and DCO?

From: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Date: Jun 12, 2009, 11:58 UTC
Message-ID: <1244807741-sup-7206@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4A32366A.6090608@op5.se>

Excerpts from Andreas Ericsson's message of Fri Jun 12 07:05:14 -0400 2009:

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> > I was giving a git introduction to students in my lab, and this
> > question came up from one of them. How widely is this convention
> > used? Are there projects other than the Linux Kernel and git itself?
> > 
> 
> We use it for our own opensource projects, though I must admit we
> stole the idea from git.git.

We're using it for shared admin edits. The author is root (or whatever the shared account happens to be in other cases) and the SoB is the admin that made the change. It's not enforced by anything other than convention, but it's still helpful for us.

-Ben

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