From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon May 14 23:40:26 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EC6EA799C for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 23:40:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@saltant.com) Received: from twaddle.saltant.net (twaddle.saltant.net [IPv6:2001:470:8d6f:1001::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE2CB72AED for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 23:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@saltant.com) Received: from statler.priv.n.saltant.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:8d6f:0:1541:3ccf:6339:57b7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by twaddle.saltant.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DFBE31189E for ; Mon, 14 May 2018 19:40:18 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=saltant.com; s=twaddle; t=1526341219; bh=1gUFLq06SsiAq1ft3CDEULKu9v0TPFsY8fF4NCtd1mA=; h=To:From:Subject:Date; b=Ft5X+vgTYRPQQQKTT/RsPC2VlbQ82YhEUts2B59X30e/0PPzQm6D5APgX32z4HBGz 9C3nKQYvq/ssLWsDM1kD1x57hpIzeIzjG8DM98ywYO2oRd+Fh/aJ6twNslWeqlqSpL JtqpSavtTD21GMbKtFh5FbRGycqJPfV8npIyiuCTWm3RkXKF379VeK1u1KcnDEVVJA By2wRbjrAqdlcqYrI4qxCZ/cEnhNDO8+MsiMKtLoQUkZ/YEI9AkNhpU9RgwZ8xf6CH a09IkRoj1XEZkdzo5S0Cvb7jkwN56Cw9tYZYV4zBjLSnFQTHKt1O0PpWQ5JQXKqUNy sLdPhazw6GIAQ== To: FreeBSD Ports From: "John W. 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O'Brien" To: FreeBSD Ports Message-ID: Subject: Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages --zk6NYptUzj8eCNuGsVfHp9EbHmbOHWE3W Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello FreeBSD Ports, The Committer's Guide section on Commit Log Messages [0], doesn't cover the use of the "Sponsored by" key word. As a non-committer contributor, it only recently occurred to me to wonder what work that credit is intended to represent, and whether some light definition would be helpful to reduce ambiguity. When a committer credits a sponsor of theirs, from which the contributor received no sponsorship, the portrayal feels a little awkward. Does this strike the list as a problem, and if so, how ought it be solved? To make this concrete, allow me to illustrate the situation. Alice, working on her own time, prepares and contributes a patch. Bob, who works for Acme Corp, reviews and commits the patch on company time. The commit message includes "Sponsored by: Acme Corp". Alice eagerly awaits her check from Acme Corp. Should the commit message have read "Sponsored by: Acme Corp (Bob)"? This could be extensible to multiple sponsorships. If, instead, Alice prepares the patch having received a grant to do so from Best Sys Dev, the commit message could state "Sponsored by: Acme Corp (Bob), Best Sys Dev (Alice)". [0] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/art= icle.html#commit-log-message PS: I realize that this issue transcends ports, but it's not clear where I should send this instead, and this list seems like it would have a reasonably high concentration of people with a stake in the discussion. --=20 John W. 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