On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:43:05PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > On 07/02/2020 15:32, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:56:08PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > >>Any script should, in addition to extracting the author and email also > >>grep for "Co-authored-by:" annotations and add those as additional > >>contributors, of course. > > > >Is there no existing established practice for that? (Or is this it and > >so infrquent that I never have seen it :-) ) > > It's a convention (much like signed-off-by, etc). But it's fairly > widely accepted.
Apparently it is mainly a github thing. > In the git conversion we added fields for it where we > detected co-authorship in the ChangeLog entries. Git has no specific > field for recording additional authors, Yup. I think in the future we will see a lot more Suggested-by: and Reviewed-by: and Tested-by: and the like, and less of what we now mark as co-authoring (also because there will be more smaller commits). Segher
