Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:55:37 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sponsored by: in commit messages Message-ID: <1539273337.72469.57.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4ACC0E9B-0DC1-4316-BACB-9EF6958ADFBA@lassitu.de> References: <4ACC0E9B-0DC1-4316-BACB-9EF6958ADFBA@lassitu.de>
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On Thu, 2018-10-11 at 17:52 +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote: > Hi there, > > I just had another update to a port that I maintain committed. Thanks > for that! > > However, the commit message contains a Sponsored by line. I'm not > sponsored by that company, and neither is the upstream project, > AFAICT. > > What is the significance of this line? > > The port update was mainly mechanical, although it included adding a > vuxml entry. At any rate, the submission contained a more specifc > entry for vuxml than what got committed. So I'm wondering what the > sponsoring actually entails. > > From what I have observed over the years, Sponsored by has often > indicated significant contributions to important subsystems. Is this > impression misguided? Does it simply indicate that the committer > working on that commit on sponsored time, no matter the amount of > work? > > > Stefan > My guess would be that the committer does much of their work for a company or organization and has customized a local commit-message template to include the sponsor line automatically. -- Ian
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