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From: Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail•com>,
	Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail•com>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco•com>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2016, #01; Mon, 4)
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:32:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3613836.VnYUjhoksq@thunderbird> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1718717.tR0GOgDc0N@thunderbird

On Monday, January 04, 2016 07:36:05 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox•net> writes:
> 
> > On Monday, January 04, 2016 03:44:33 PM Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >>  Becoming tired of waiting for a reroll.
> >>  ($gmane/271213).
> >>  Anybody wants to help rerolling this?  Otherwise will discard.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Becoming tired of waiting for a reroll.
> >>  Anybody wants to help rerolling this?  Otherwise will discard.
> >  > ($gmane/272180).
> >
> > What do you mean by rerolling this?  If you mean that you would
> > like someone to pick up the patch and try and get it though then I
> > don't mind helping.
> 
> More or less.  I do not mind if these topics disappeared, either,
> but we have spent review and discussion bandwidth for these
> unfinished topics and we may want to take them to the completion.
> 
> > For my education, how does this affect the sign-off proceedure?
> 
> Depending on the extent of changes from the original version, either
> you take the authorship (with comment in the log message saying that
> it is based on Such and Such's patches) or you still keep them as
> the author (with comment in the log message saying that you extended
> it in such and such way).  In either case, as long as their original
> remains in the resulting patch, you retain their Sign-off and then
> add your Sign-off at the end.
> 
> If you take the ideas from their series and rewrite everything from
> scratch, you would take the authorship, with comment in the log
> message saying that you took inspiration from Such and Such's
> patches, and have only your Sign-off.
> 
> 

If Will isn't interested in finishing these two patches I will pick them 
up [ ($gmane/271213), ($gmane/272180) ]

After that I will check look at some of the others for which you've 
asked for help.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-05  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-05  2:44 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2016, #01; Mon, 4) Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-01-05  3:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-05  4:32 ` Stephen & Linda Smith [this message]
2016-01-07  3:56 ` Picking up old threads/patches Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-01-07  3:59   ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-01-07  8:03     ` Jeff King
2016-01-07 13:29     ` Stephen & Linda Smith
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-01-04 23:44 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2016, #01; Mon, 4) Junio C Hamano

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