From nobody Sun Nov 24 11:14:21 2024 Received: from mail.manjaro.org (mail.manjaro.org [116.203.91.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72E3219259D; Wed, 6 Nov 2024 06:29:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=116.203.91.91 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1730874550; cv=none; b=kNJjcLHu5xcYk2lettItU4XPwY29mztCQrscQL13whC3oI0kbgAjZVtmlTPEH7AR5zrdxNnuqeljBt+Tdm7HGl2jv/fvkW453/erTHS0j4za1qFOD3lWhYzJzPL3DpgDy9WqJEIZ+P/eYxfe72NNAUmgFgFcunstPDRpS8bIB8E= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1730874550; c=relaxed/simple; bh=dQgcGWUvfOu5xpeBNFHrBzxUtWgdyqujDCKQfFq6Dkg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=KFzTTqPUKFXgXZ7U/x9iGxtG+mSWQzUSWoOm7RuUr1g3MJ+OX+FP6V8OUoGaUm+JSggOEI6Wenlkhxqs/flgl65WiVQR8qOUQeWiO/uTUerlNXq36vYlnsH3RJuDFtWPU3pCVBuc9ioB06dmQAEoJWpQ9HK2tGXGcui9g5o8og8= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b=ECRbCt83; arc=none smtp.client-ip=116.203.91.91 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b="ECRbCt83" From: Dragan Simic DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=manjaro.org; s=2021; t=1730874541; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=cKylLYA/b4uX/rCkAgwCAqhzPmE0mtRHuRn9J/WQvog=; b=ECRbCt83YvrrNDL67JttM61Lst+t4md/GY9YFVLN+gmQsSCDKcmziFB9z5xqANkE18wSE3 iq1h0cekEZOeZwwppdE7hnWhaB0ahMAA0YU2fdzeUTUVywl1HFmHduSmsts6N+KibRzx70 PoThe9XD9cOMUVGJseTJIkzWZE8lVfp4SVv58aIx6xWnmvMZwEoHQAR+x20ogApTazwhvC XNJspnT4jR1aUnpBryp/iPSIcdcXI0LmvhkSxanzhrx+tOEiA8IGoNcXDsC/FDL26eBq8e SAI1jo28Us7c+K5NY5/mQP1bZwHuzkCTvkid80MvXco3sXODClEaICFT9mqm3Q== To: apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com, corbet@lwn.net Cc: dwaipayanray1@gmail.com, lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, wens@csie.org, dsimic@manjaro.org Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs: submitting-patches: Describe the use of Helped-by tag Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 07:28:42 +0100 Message-Id: <55056f4ec0365c67576a1e1e3162b0cfeadd1c6d.1730874296.git.dsimic@manjaro.org> In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Authentication-Results: ORIGINATING; auth=pass smtp.auth=dsimic@manjaro.org smtp.mailfrom=dsimic@manjaro.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Add the description of the intended use of Helped-by tags, which give credit to the persons who assisted the patch authors in a way that didn't actually contribute to the patch directly, i.e. at the source-code level. Suggested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/p= rocess/submitting-patches.rst index 382c49659cb9..d0d12536ab68 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -452,8 +452,8 @@ as it was propagated to the maintainers and ultimately = to Linus, with the first SoB entry signalling primary authorship of a single author. =20 =20 -When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, and Co-developed-by: ------------------------------------------------- +When to use Acked-by:, Cc:, Co-developed-by:, and Helped-by +----------------------------------------------------------- =20 The Signed-off-by: tag indicates that the signer was involved in the development of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path. @@ -495,6 +495,14 @@ chronological history of the patch insofar as possible= , regardless of whether the author is attributed via From: or Co-developed-by:. Notably, the last Signed-off-by: must always be that of the developer submitting the patch. =20 +Helped-by: gives attribution to the persons that helped the patch authors +in a way that didn't directly produce the patch itself. For example, some= one +may provide significant assistance to the authors by researching the schem= atic +of a device that the patch addresses, or by providing the patch authors wi= th +some background information required to develop the patch, while contribut= ing +no actual source code. As a result of no direct patch authorship, no +Signed-off-by: tags are needed together with Helped-by: tags. + Note, the From: tag is optional when the From: author is also the person (= and email) listed in the From: line of the email header.