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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add Co-Developed-by to signature tags
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On 12/14/18 18:39, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 22:58 +0530, Himanshu Jha wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 08:27:33AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> Is it really important to specify things like 75% / 25%
>>> authorship crediting?
>> IDK how that ratio came up into this discussion ?
> How does one tell when a co-developed-by: person
> should be notated or blamed for a defective commit?
>
> git blame shows only 1 author.
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co-developed is simply about crediting a piece of work, something which 
is intrinsically connected to the philosophy of open source.
I could name a number of papers but one that comes to my mind is a work 
from Pekka Himanen, The Hacker Ethic...[1993].
anyway, so while sign-of is of a practical nature, co-developed is more 
of a social one. at least that is my understanding.