Subject: Re: Promoting Git developers

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:43:00 -0700

Fredrik Gustafsson <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:53:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I'd first suggest to employ "icase" to unify *-By and *-by.  Perhaps
>> we would want a recommended list somewhere in SubmittingPatches to
>> discourage people from getting too creative?
>
> There's already such list in SubmittingPatches, so there's already quite
> a few to choose from:
>
> Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please
> don't hide your real name.
>
> If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:
>
> 1. "Reported-by:" is used to credit someone who found the bug that
> 	the patch attempts to fix.
> 2. "Acked-by:" says that the person who is more familiar with the
> 	area the patch attempts to modify liked the patch.
> 3. "Reviewed-by:", unlike the other tags, can only be offered by
> 	the reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the
> 	patch is ready for application.  It is usually offered only after
> 	a detailed review.
> 4. "Tested-by:" is used to indicate that the person
> 	applied the patch and found it to have the desired effect.
>
> You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage such as
> "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".

Hmph, the first step might be to drop that last sentence, I guess,
if we consider this a "mess" and if we want to clean it up.