Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422719AbWBIANx (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:13:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422718AbWBIANw (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:13:52 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:28088 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422719AbWBIANw (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:13:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:13:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Kurt Wall cc: Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: "Changelog-2.6.15": missing signoffs, descriptions In-Reply-To: <20060209001048.GA6279@kurtwerks.com> Message-ID: References: <43E935BA.8050605@tlinx.org> <43E943FD.7090508@tlinx.org> <20060208193202.GA8275@agluck-lia64.sc.intel.com> <43EA7680.6000207@tlinx.org> <20060209001048.GA6279@kurtwerks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1422 Lines: 37 On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Kurt Wall wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:00:01PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap took 50 lines to write: > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > > > Luck, Tony wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:06:05PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > > > > > >> 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"? > > [...] > > > Linda, did you have some other point that you are trying to get to, > > or is that it? There are real efforts being made, although not > > perfect. That happens when people are involved. > > Anyway, it feels like you are just getting to the surface/edge > > of your complaint. > > The way I read this thread, I thought the complaint was that she's > having difficulty writing one or more tools to process the changes > automatically. Perhaps I'm not seeing past the surface. You could be right, but then she has solved it (noted as "optional" fields above). Good. -- ~Randy - 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/