From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.manjaro.org (mail.manjaro.org [116.203.91.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0B4917995E; Wed, 6 Nov 2024 06:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=116.203.91.91 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1730875625; cv=none; b=NBuB9Fck8jgZj8UtNQk5/m5fpeW+GN8qNqqMaZCClGIkqYsFjzHiblbKGNymi5SlNQ6VQFAr8fV67SOY5gpsAIL1TzUPAn/qeVMNrtHnoTLi4t+w/RXU7D0cS7FUqkdm30pMEAwpPXovt7DH3VUaNQuU/oDHBTRFnoG/i5/TKUQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1730875625; c=relaxed/simple; bh=R6xU0CG0JVOsK28xl4wfoSihcnxNMnuC7uvoSjkp/Mo=; h=MIME-Version:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: Message-ID:Content-Type; b=MIyyd+bcE4NhanLr1Bhup0+ndaYYZi/+I8V1TkvR1m6OPma+uCptcf9jFy4s2h5APiKIaBBchGeNdRr+RQs/hteE3Wp1YJNL0xfWJva+Jnj9U6wF5bmggilUTXZhr7Dg5cyNxJaRghZvHhzzePNaMT47k++p/Gql13sdrMinI7U= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b=FJcMtEHy; arc=none smtp.client-ip=116.203.91.91 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b="FJcMtEHy" Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=manjaro.org; s=2021; t=1730875621; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=fes0DCao26FBIpxfJIxE0I8Zn8dlbC9mrrRVdNzfHLk=; b=FJcMtEHymvisNaYC0PPShiF1BZMbLwLsJe0OItVNDZI8mfXZwqE2/pngmRSNyEuQu1+Feg sH6+V1/A/0TPm935MfkkcoNJjRKLRy1Uwsy+gpNZfChA9ir0FSzpr9dmznotwmx2v11z7a qdjB/etSEynTVXpXSAWAiyY5h+ONkpwPdbZyuYf28ykF5JErfvwQzYdTymkQQcuXru1/4j aw49Pq5bTGsJSh8SUg+ZTFWanAQhjLx4J1ygQae/vZE9Mu8Xm9Me8H6zTBsFo1xffzJMwl uVANtUA2URfcfDza4r9BKBe9vE9zNbBAEY+LPDRAYkb23+Wib+HB2QrTwBVyzA== Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:47:01 +0100 From: Dragan Simic To: apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com, corbet@lwn.net Cc: dwaipayanray1@gmail.com, lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, wens@csie.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: submitting-patches: Describe the use of Helped-by tag In-Reply-To: <55056f4ec0365c67576a1e1e3162b0cfeadd1c6d.1730874296.git.dsimic@manjaro.org> References: <55056f4ec0365c67576a1e1e3162b0cfeadd1c6d.1730874296.git.dsimic@manjaro.org> Message-ID: <33204d0882909375801a2b0c74b5354c@manjaro.org> X-Sender: dsimic@manjaro.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Authentication-Results: ORIGINATING; auth=pass smtp.auth=dsimic@manjaro.org smtp.mailfrom=dsimic@manjaro.org Hello, On 2024-11-06 07:28, Dragan Simic wrote: > Add the description of the intended use of Helped-by tags, which give > credit > to the persons who assisted the patch authors in a way that didn't > actually > contribute to the patch directly, i.e. at the source-code level. > > Suggested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai > Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic > --- > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 12 ++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > index 382c49659cb9..d0d12536ab68 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > @@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ as it was propagated to the maintainers and > ultimately to Linus, with > the first SoB entry signalling primary authorship of a single author. > > > -When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-developed-by: > ------------------------------------------------- > +When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, Co-developed-by:, and Helped-by > +----------------------------------------------------------- Oh, now I see that I've missed a colon after Helped-by in the section title above. :/ Would you like me to send a v3 with the fix, or do you prefer to fix it by hand before applying the patch? > The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the > development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery > path. > @@ -495,6 +495,14 @@ chronological history of the patch insofar as > possible, regardless of whether > the author is attributed via From: or Co-developed-by:. Notably, the > last > Signed-off-by: must always be that of the developer submitting the > patch. > > +Helped-by: gives attribution to the persons that helped the patch > authors > +in a way that didn't directly produce the patch itself. For example, > someone > +may provide significant assistance to the authors by researching the > schematic > +of a device that the patch addresses, or by providing the patch > authors with > +some background information required to develop the patch, while > contributing > +no actual source code. As a result of no direct patch authorship, no > +Signed-off-by: tags are needed together with Helped-by: tags. > + > Note, the From: tag is optional when the From: author is also the > person (and > email) listed in the From: line of the email header.