From: Stephen & Linda Smith Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 04:32:27 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2016, #01; Mon, 4) Message-ID: <3613836.VnYUjhoksq@thunderbird> In-Reply-To: <1718717.tR0GOgDc0N@thunderbird> On Monday, January 04, 2016 07:36:05 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stephen & Linda Smith writes: > > > On Monday, January 04, 2016 03:44:33 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Becoming tired of waiting for a reroll. > >> ($gmane/271213). > >> Anybody wants to help rerolling this? Otherwise will discard. > > > > > > > >> Becoming tired of waiting for a reroll. > >> Anybody wants to help rerolling this? Otherwise will discard. > > > ($gmane/272180). > > > > What do you mean by rerolling this? If you mean that you would > > like someone to pick up the patch and try and get it though then I > > don't mind helping. > > More or less. I do not mind if these topics disappeared, either, > but we have spent review and discussion bandwidth for these > unfinished topics and we may want to take them to the completion. > > > For my education, how does this affect the sign-off proceedure? > > Depending on the extent of changes from the original version, either > you take the authorship (with comment in the log message saying that > it is based on Such and Such's patches) or you still keep them as > the author (with comment in the log message saying that you extended > it in such and such way). In either case, as long as their original > remains in the resulting patch, you retain their Sign-off and then > add your Sign-off at the end. > > If you take the ideas from their series and rewrite everything from > scratch, you would take the authorship, with comment in the log > message saying that you took inspiration from Such and Such's > patches, and have only your Sign-off. > > If Will isn't interested in finishing these two patches I will pick them up [ ($gmane/271213), ($gmane/272180) ] After that I will check look at some of the others for which you've asked for help.