On Thursday 16 of October 2014 21:14:26 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > I have a question:
> >
> > I often process patches from Fran�ois, making adjustments as needed, and
> > then
> > commit. For such posts will be listed as an author Fran�ois and as
> > Signed-off
> > will be mine. Is this the correct procedure?
>
> Actually he needs to sign off on them.  It gets a bit confusing because
> there are actually three authorship fields in GIT that we are interested
> in: author, signed-off-by, and committer.  In this case his name goes into
> author and signed-off-by, and your name goes into committer.  So when you
> process the patches, if he provided a signed-off-by line for that patch in
> Bugzilla then you copy that into the commit message on the last line of
> the commit message, separated by a blank line.
>
> As I am still phasing the CLA system in, and I trust the core team not to
> sue, include copyrighted code, etc., if he has not provided a
> signed-off-by line for the patches go ahead and commit them without a
> signed-off-by line.
>
> For developers with GIT accounts you can commit and sign off all in one
> step by passing the -s flag to git commit.  Just be aware that you are
> stating you have the legal right to license the commit when you do this;
> philosophically this is the same as before but the procedure is a bit more
> formal now.
>
> > Or contributions should be Signed-off at the same time by Fran�ois? If
> > so, how
> > should it be implemented technically?
>
> When he submits patches he should provide a signed-off-by line for that
> patch in the bugtracker.  If anyone outside of the core team submits a
> patch without a signed-off-by line for that patch in the bug report we
> need to request that they provide one--the patch itself does not have to
> be resubmitted, but the submitter needs to add a comment stating they are
> signing off on that patch and appending the appropriate signed-off-by line
> to that comment.
>
> > Similarly, in cases of occasional contributors who do not have commit
> > access?
> > For example, during the integration of the translations.
>
> Same as above; if patch is submitted via Email then the Email should
> contain the signed-off-by line.  It's always OK to reply to a patch
> submission and request that a signed-off-by line be provided.
>
> Does this make sense?  Basically we're just fixing the bookkeeping end of
> the project so that we know who authored, who owns, who released, and who
> committed anything and can thereby better avoid any potential legal
> issues.
>
> Tim
>

Yes, I assumed that I start using '-s' at commit. I just did not know what the 
outcome will be using --author '...' together with '-s'.

At the same time, I also hesitated over the procedure of processing patches 
that need to be corrected before commit. If I had to incorporate a patch in 
its original form and as a subsequent commit make the necessary changes?

-- 
Sl�vek