[Xen-ia64-devel] Suggest to use Signed-off-by when sending patch

["Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Now many developers are active and making great contribution on this
mailing list.  After discussing with Dan, we suggest everyone to use
Signed-off-by when sending out your patch and especially with a brief
description within your patch.

Signed-off-by is introduced by Linus to track who makes the patch
originally and the path that patch gets reviewed/changed, and thus it's
also generally required in xen community. It's easy to note that all xen
branches (except xen-ia64-unstable) conform to this style. Since this
sign is an indicator to the originator, Dan won't help add it if missing
and will ask for resubmission later. Also, this is the sign to preserve
your credit for effort on this patch. ;-)

Most time the content in the mail body is verbose for background /
description / discussion / etc. which will take Dan's extra time to
summarize. So a short/precise description about the patch is better to
be added into the patch together with the Signed-off-by. Usually if you
work on hg repository, it's easy since you are requested to input
description when commit the patch and then later "hg export" can
generate exact style here. If you generate the patch by yourself with
"diff" directly, it's also easy to use vi after creating patch to add
the description info.

Comments?

Thanks,
Kevin


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