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Re: Teams in changelog trailers



On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 08:01:14PM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:24:39PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> (18/02/2012):
> > > > This would:
> > > > 1) allow to always identify person responsible for a particular upload;
> > > 
> > > To be very pedantic, the signature on the last upload should reveal
> > > this, right?
> > 
> > Not if the team upload is prepared by someone who then gets sponsored by
> > a DD (or a DM from the relevant team).
> 
> In which case the sponsor of the upload is responsible for the upload,
> right? The person signing and uploading is "responsible" for the
> content of the upload, whether directly as the person who prepared the
> upload or as someone who has checked what is being sponsored before
> uploading it. The signer is taking responsibility, if I understand correctly.

But pedantry aside, I am also for Jakub's original suggestion.

Kumar
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