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

[Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>]

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.

First: thx for your Review-by given earlier!

> 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.

Hmmm, that is one of those "grey area" tags[1], as it's not documented
yet afaics ('grep -ir Requested-by Documentation/
scripts/get_maintainer.pl' gave nothing). Documenting it would make it
official; I'm not sure if that is wanted and say that is something that
should be done independently if somebody wants to make it official.

Ciao, Thorsten

[1] like "Reported-and-tested-by", which according to
Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst should not be used.