From: Schneelocke <schneelocke@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 21:19:13 GMT
Subject: Re: ALSA official git repository
Message-ID: <d4dc44d505052714193e2c1d1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050527135124.0d98c33e.akpm@osdl.org>

On 27/05/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 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:"?

How about "^Written-by:"? That seems to fit in much more nicely with
"Signed-off-by:".
 
-- 
schnee