From: phillip.wood123@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:09:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list
Message-ID: <e4b6eda6-8d20-48b3-a33d-13ee07d227ce@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACZqfqCar=tay5diocU7jVWBwPUFqewNYfPLHkYvvR1fSBSdPA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Josh

On 20/12/2023 17:42, Josh Soref wrote:
>      SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
> 
>      There seems to be consensus amongst the core Git community on a working
>      set of common trailers, and there are non-trivial costs to people
>      inventing new trailers (research to discover what they mean/how they
>      differ from existing trailers) such that inventing new ones is generally
>      unwarranted and not something to be recommended to new contributors.
> 
>      Suggested-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
>      Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index 32e9023877..58dfe40504 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -358,4 +358,5 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
> 
> -You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
> -such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
> +While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we
> +encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project
> +highlighted above.

Thanks for this, it looks good and would be a useful addition to v2 of 
your patch series.

Best Wishes

Phillip