[PATCH] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output

Gabriel F. T. Gomes gabriel@inconstante.eti.br
Fri Dec 21 03:13:00 GMT 2018


On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:

>On 12/19/18 11:13 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>>
>> we had discussed using Signed-off-by but I just forgot to implement it 
>> in this script.  I'll add it.  
>I don't recall that discussion; in case I haven't suggested it already, 
>I suggest using the same convention that other GNU projects use:
>
>* If "Co-authored-by: Joe User <user@example.com>" appears at the start 
>of a log message line, that author is added to the ChangeLog entry.
>
>* If "Signed-off-by: Joe User <user@example.com>" appears at the start 
>of a log message line, that line is simply elided.
>
>* If "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: Yes" appears at the start of a log 
>message line, the "(tiny change)" notation is added.

Eliding Signed-off-by entries seems to be inline with what has been
pointed out to me in patches such as
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-11/msg00148.html, i.e. that
Signed-off-by statements have to do with DCO, which we don't use.



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