On 08/19/2015 08:00 PM, Matthew Thode wrote: > On 08/19/2015 12:48 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Matthew Thode >> <prometheanf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On 08/19/2015 12:37 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >>>> On 08/19/2015 09:33 AM, hasufell wrote: >>>>> I don't want to start a lot of bikeshed, but I think this information is >>>>> practically useless. >>>>> >>>>> If there has been a problem with a commit, ask the developer about his >>>>> repoman version (which I believe was the reason for this, unless you >>>>> want me to add "Package-Manager: paludis-2.4.0" to every commit ;). >>>>> >>>>> Let's just remove it. >>>>> >>>> >>>> The intent is to leave a record of the version of repoman used, which >>>> leaves an audit trail in case there's a bug in some some version (or to >>>> detect if someone is using an ancient version). It can especially be >>>> useful when new repoman checks need to be added for new EAPI features. >>>> >>> If repoman supported adding a signedoffby line I'd likely use it more >>> for commits. Still running repoman full before commit though. >> >> I do not believe we have an requirement for adding Signed-off-by in >> the gentoo repository. Why do you feel the need to do that? >> > General completeness is all >
Signed-off-by has a completely different purpose which is not part of our workflow, so that tag is pretty useless to us most of the time. See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:Gentoo_git_workflow#Sign-Off
