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Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages
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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. 

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