Re: [PATCH v3 DONOTMERGE] docs: clarify rules wrt tagging other people

[Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>]

On 02.12.24 15:45, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 2 Dec 2024 14:54:56 +0100
> Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> escreveu:
> 
>> On 02.12.24 11:02, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>> Em Mon, 2 Dec 2024 09:28:57 +0100
>>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> escreveu:
>>>   
>>>>> +Tagging people requires permission
>>>>> +----------------------------------
>>>>> +
>>>>> +Be careful in the addition of tags to your patches, as all except for Cc:,
>>>>> +Reported-by:, and Suggested-by: need explicit permission of the person named.
>>>>> +For the three aforementioned ones implicit permission is sufficient if the
>>>>> +person contributed to the Linux kernel using that name and email address
>>>>> +according to the lore archives or the commit history -- and in case of
>>>>> +Reported-by: and Suggested-by: did the reporting or suggestion in public.
>>>>> +Note, bugzilla.kernel.org is a public place in this sense, but email addresses
>>>>> +used there are private; so do not expose them in tags, unless the person used
>>>>> +them in earlier contributions.  
>>>
>>> Hmm... There is another tag that we use without requiring explicit permissions:
>>>
>>> 	Requested-by:
>>>
>>> There are currently 376 occurrences on 6.13-rc1.
>>>
>>> This is used when a maintainer or reviewer publicly requests some changes to
>>> be added on a patch series.  
> [...]
> You're basically requesting explicit permission for any "non-official"
> tags as well, including reviewed-by. This is not what it is wanted here.

Ahh, okay, I see the problem now. But well, I'd say "as all except" in a
text like this implicitly only refers to those the text mentions in the
first place. So I'd say it's good as it is. But if people think this is
a problem, I could easily use a slightly modified phrase like "...as all
mentioned above except...".

Ciao, Thorsten