Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 10:54:41 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: "John W. O'Brien" <john@saltant.com> Cc: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages Message-ID: <CAF6rxgmNL2pRJwJUz39Cfw=Di5sfhN3PvSCfwTrsupQ86gHcFw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <31190803-e6ba-428b-0954-341dad2f1916@saltant.com> References: <ae2fe971-b20b-1fdf-48cd-58f595836c11@saltant.com> <CAH7qZfs8eNMkkeQ0eyV5AcapOCQFFL1fUiBDR1aM1875-Cy-Lg@mail.gmail.com> <3cc77471-4200-1f45-e83d-2ae4d636f4fa@saltant.com> <CAH7qZfu6j%2Bc-HpjHnwxyeQTKwX9DavN4iAzSpMO5Kjy9VJ2uHw@mail.gmail.com> <732c3f40-1765-6883-dbec-f5c77db8e30c@saltant.com> <CAH7qZftNadmygyPNW9HNPWTY9kU6W7j-409CrV0XGk6ZYDQTug@mail.gmail.com> <7b14a5c4-7320-8f5e-b8c3-f49809caf9e5@saltant.com> <20180518041501.GF37752@home.opsec.eu> <CAF6rxgnHeSEAOw_qbMeWEiSEX3dbcu7ASPBVthsCXkaZ%2Bf%2BBaQ@mail.gmail.com> <31190803-e6ba-428b-0954-341dad2f1916@saltant.com>
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On 18 May 2018 at 04:40, John W. O'Brien <john@saltant.com> wrote: > On 2018/05/18 00:43, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On 17 May 2018 at 21:15, Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>>> The FreeBSD project could help by asking committers to qualify >>>> "Sponsored by" lines to indicate which participant(s) is(are) sponsored, >>>> in way that is equivalent to the way that the actual work itself is >>>> customarily attributed. >>> >>> This sounds reasonable, so I suggest that you submit a >>> patch to the ports handbook that describes it for maintainers >>> and committers. >> >> One thing to note: FreeBSD has a custom patch to subversion to detect >> "ORGANIZATION_NAME" and automatically append it to the default >> template. This is likely why its getting added in unexpected places. >> > > How do you think I should handle that in my forthcoming doc patch? Is > there a related bug I should file against services? Its a client side patch of the subversion binary. I'm not sure the best way to handle it beyond perhaps changing the template a bit? -- Eitan Adler
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