Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030351AbWBHBGH (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:06:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030353AbWBHBGH (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:06:07 -0500 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([64.81.245.74]:2482 "EHLO ishtar.tlinx.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030351AbWBHBGF (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:06:05 -0500 Message-ID: <43E943FD.7090508@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:06:05 -0800 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: File "Changelog-2.6.15": missing signoffs References: <43E935BA.8050605@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: <43E935BA.8050605@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1844 Lines: 53 Actually, ("talking" to myself?), parsing this file a bit more, I find many (~134) that are missing "Sign-offs". I take it that "Sign-off"s are also "optional" on commits and represent that the author specified under the "commit" tag did not need a "Sign-off"? Just trying to see if I can parse large changelogs into groups that might be easier digest and summarize... -linda Linda Walsh wrote: > I was examining and checking the Changelog for 2.6.15 and noticed > one commit out of the 4959 that was problematic (near line 21375): > > commit 7b7abfe3dd81d659a0889f88965168f7eef8c5c6 > Author: Steve French > Date: Wed Nov 9 15:21:09 2005 -0800 > > --- end of entry --- > > This change has no description and no one listed as signing it off. > > Was there a 1-line description for this commit and was this > commit sign off by anyone? > > Do either, the missing "signoff", or "description", constitute the > possibility that the "commit" went in "unapproved" & "unaudited"? > > > On a less worrisome note, 62 of the 4958 commits had no "details" > beyond (after) the 1-line description. Is it safe to say that further > "details" after the 1-line description are optional? > > This is the first Changelog I've examined in this detail, so I can't > say if this is a first or one-time problem. > > Thanks, > -linda > > - > 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/ - 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/