Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755366Ab3G2WUr (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:20:47 -0400 Received: from v094114.home.net.pl ([79.96.170.134]:64039 "HELO v094114.home.net.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754181Ab3G2WUq (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:20:46 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Jason Cooper , Samuel Ortiz , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:30:54 +0200 Message-ID: <4053222.hWzinV5Hra@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.10.0+; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20130729181733.GB31172@tuxdriver.com> References: <20130729102452.GA2682@zurbaran> <3572404.Lna8dKdTsO@vostro.rjw.lan> <20130729181733.GB31172@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 27 On Monday, July 29, 2013 02:17:34 PM John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:27:44PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > That said we have the same issue with commits with just two SOB tags if > > a maintainer applies a patch that nobody has responded to. Are they going to > > be regarded as "suspicious" too now? > > > > And what about trusting maintainers? If Linus trusts them enough to pull from > > them, why can't everybody else trust them enough to assume that they don't do > > bad things on purpose? > > Not just Linus -- it's 'turtles all the way down' here. As someone > else suggested, a Singed-off-by in the merge commit should suffice > here. Although, I haven't always made a habit of adding S-o-b to > merge commits either... An SOB in the merge doesn't provide any additional information that can't be retrieved from git, unless you use a different e-mail address for the sign-off. :-) Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/