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

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 14, 2009, 03:55 UTC
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<20090613180018.GB23007@pengutronix.de>
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 08:00:18PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:42:07AM +0900, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
> > 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?
> I know ptxdist[1] and topgit[2].
> 
> Best regards
> Uwe
> 
> [1] http://pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist/index_en.html
> [2] http://repo.or.cz/w/topgit.git
git-cola [1] does.
I learned it by watching git ;-)

Multiple sign-off lines are useful for tracking code reviews as well, as it's done on git and the kernel.

I've seen various flavors along those lines:
	Signed-Off-By: ...
	Tested-By: ... ($platform)
	Acked-By: ...
	Reviewed-By: ...
[1] http://cola.tuxfamily.org/
-- 
		David
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Message 11 of 13 in “Who uses Signed-off-by and DCO?”
  1. Nanako ShiraishiJun 11, 2009
  2. Andreas EricssonJun 12, 2009
  3. Ben WaltonJun 12, 2009
  4. Jeff KingJun 12, 2009
  5. Jacob HelwigJun 12, 2009
  6. Scott ChaconJun 12, 2009
  7. Theodore TsoJun 12, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2009
  9. Theodore TsoJun 13, 2009
  10. Uwe Kleine-KönigJun 13, 2009
  11. David AguilarJun 14, 2009
  12. Ben WaltonJun 12, 2009
  13. Brandon CaseyJun 12, 2009

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