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

From
Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2009, 15:25 UTC
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Hey,
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jacob Helwig<jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wrote:
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> GitHub uses it for the Fork Queue.  Whenever you pull in someone's
> changes through the Fork Queue, it will add a SOB line for the person
> pulling in the changes.  In this case it appears to be an "I approve
> these incoming changes", instead of the DCO.  I honestly couldn't say
> how common it is for projects that aren't on GitHub to use the SOB in
> this manner, however.

It has been pointed out that this is not consistent with how other projects used SOB - we will probably remove this feature, or at least add a checkbox or something instead in the near future. FYI.

Scott
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  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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