From: Scott Chacon Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:25:27 GMT Subject: Re: Who uses Signed-off-by and DCO? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <8c9a060906120756u194b783dp4d809d7f3d6921b3@mail.gmail.com> Hey, On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jacob Helwig wrote: > 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