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Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines



On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:40:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:12:49PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > >   * `Signed-off-by` (optional)

> > For the avoidance of confusion I would suggest that this be changed to
> > Reviewed-by - the normal Linux/git Signed-off-by has a specific meaning
> > that needn't include actually doing a code review.

> I started first with "Reviewed-by" and then thought that it was stupid to
> not reuse the name that is already vastly used for a similar purpose. What
> do other people think? I'm fine with both names.

My point here is that Signed-off-by is widely used for a *different*
purpose.


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