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author | Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2018-09-18 09:50:30 +0200 |
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committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2018-10-28 19:47:55 +0100 |
commit | 06342205ef474262af338cd22d14941a2d5168c4 (patch) | |
tree | 7118fc98a742969c1cfcd6e1c023f9380a428df1 | |
parent | glep-0001: Use exaple domain from RFC 2606. (diff) | |
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glep-0066: Update the meaning of Signed-off-by
Reported-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
-rw-r--r-- | glep-0066.rst | 25 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/glep-0066.rst b/glep-0066.rst index a605cf2..a352175 100644 --- a/glep-0066.rst +++ b/glep-0066.rst @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ Title: Gentoo Git Workflow Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Type: Standards Track Status: Final -Version: 1 +Version: 1.1 Created: 2017-07-24 -Last-Modified: 2017-11-13 -Post-History: 2017-07-25, 2017-09-28, 2017-10-11 +Last-Modified: 2018-09-18 +Post-History: 2017-07-25, 2017-09-28, 2017-10-11, 2018-09-18 Content-Type: text/x-rst --- @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ with the Gentoo ebuild repository. It covers only Gentoo-specific policies, and is not meant to be a complete guide. +Change log +========== +v1.1 + Updated the ``Signed-off-by`` footer tag description to account + for newly-approved copyright policy. + + Motivation ========== Although the main Gentoo repository is using git for two years already, @@ -188,8 +195,8 @@ A few tags of common use are: - ``Reported-by: Full Name <email@example.com>``, - ``Reviewed-by: Full Name <email@example.com>`` — usually indicates full review, - - ``Signed-off-by: Full Name <email@example.com>`` — DCO approval (not - used in Gentoo right now), + - ``Signed-off-by: Full Name <email@example.com>`` — GCO/DCO approval + (defined by GLEP 76 [#GLEP76]_), - ``Suggested-by: Full Name <email@example.com>``, - ``Tested-by: Full Name <email@example.com>``. @@ -364,8 +371,9 @@ tags collected from various projects (the Linux kernel, X.org). Those tags can be used interchangeably with plaintext explanation in the body. The only tag defined by git itself is the ``Signed-off-by`` line, -that is created by ``git commit -s``. However, Gentoo does not -currently enforce a DCO consistently, and therefore it is meaningless. +that is created by ``git commit -s``. While git does not define +the precise meaning of it, it is commonly used to reference Certificate +of Origin sign-off. The tags subject to machine processing are the ``Bug`` and ``Closes`` lines. Both are used by git.gentoo.org to handle Gentoo Bugzilla @@ -445,6 +453,9 @@ References .. [#GLEP63] GLEP 63: Gentoo GPG key policies (https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0063.html) +.. [#GLEP76] GLEP 76: Copyright policy + (https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html) + .. [#REPOMAN_PKG_NAME_COMMIT] (https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=46dafadff58da0220511f20480b73ad09f913430) |