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On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 06:58:00PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote:
> I've personally seen it, and I don't think I'm alone.  It seems to follow
> a pattern of:
> 
>  - Manager/HR thinks counting tags is a useful metric (#!@$ laziness).
>  - tag-count becomes an evaluation item.
>  - Pay raises are affected.
>  - patch submitters do the obvious.
>  - maintainers weep and die a little inside.
> 
> The easy ones to spot are multiple-S-o-bs.  I've actually been told "No,
> he didn't write any code, I was just trying to help him out."

On the flip side, I've submitted patches with two Signed-off-by tags
specifically because both people actually wrote the code and are
agreeing to the DCO (and more generally claiming responsibility/blame
for the patch), and gotten complaints from maintainers that it "doesn't
reflect the chain of git trees the patch went through" or similar.
Which seems ridiculous.

- Josh Triplett