From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 20:51:24 GMT
Subject: Re: ALSA official git repository
Message-ID: <20050527135124.0d98c33e.akpm@osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505271113410.17402@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, sorry for this small bug. I'll recreate the ALSA git tree with
> > proper comments again. Also, the author is not correct (should be taken
> > from the first Signed-off-by:).
> 
> Hmm.. That's not always true in general, since Sign-off does allow to sign
> off on other peoples patches (see the "(b)" clause in DCO), but maybe in
> the ALSA tree it is.

Yes, I'll occasionally do patches which were written by "A" as:

From: A
...
Signed-off-by: B

And that comes through email as:


...
From: <akpm@osdl.org>
...
From: A
...
Signed-off-by: B


which means that the algorithm for identifying the author is "the final
From:".

I guess the bug here is the use of From: to identify the primary author,
because transporting the patch via email adds ambiguity.

Maybe we should introduce "^Author:"?