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For those who aren't familiar with the kernel process, what's the Reported-by line? Simply the reporter of any original bug that the patch was written to fix?
by abstractbeliefs 10y ago
For those who aren't familiar with the kernel process, what's the Reported-by line? Simply the reporter of any original bug that the patch was written to fix?
I understand that the Signed-off-by line is equivalent to a CLA, right?
- hdhzy 10y agoYes and yes.
- philips 10y agoYes, and many of the maintainer automations will email the reporter about the patch being merged into the various releases. And signed-off-by is essentially a shorthand for agreement to this document: http://developercertificate.org/ http://developercertificate.org/
- tych0 10y agoYes, Reported-by is the original reporter. Signed-off-by is fallout from the SCO lawsuit. It has nothing to do with agreeing to any sort of CLA; it's just another way to confirm that the code was written by the person in Signed-off-by, or that the person in Signed-off-by thinks it was created under appropriate open source conditions (e.g. the company who paid the developer to write it is okay with it being released).
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