| Message ID | 20230917205107.366824-2-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Headers | show |
| Series | docs/manual: document how to give credits to a sponsor | expand |
>>>>> "Giulio" == Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com> writes: > Sometimes it happens that a Company or a Physical Person sponsors the > creation and/or the upstreaming process of a patch, but at the moment > there is no way to give credits to it. In Linux they prepend '+sponsor' > to the e-mail of the contributor in both authorship and commit log tag as > discussed here[0]. So let's describe in the manual how to do that as a > standard. > [0]: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20230817220957.41582-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com/ > Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com> Committed to 2023.02.x, 2023.05.x and 2023.08.x, thanks.
diff --git a/docs/manual/contribute.txt b/docs/manual/contribute.txt index 384fdb08c1..df3e0af4b4 100644 --- a/docs/manual/contribute.txt +++ b/docs/manual/contribute.txt @@ -147,6 +147,13 @@ Buildroot's Patchwork website can be used to pull in patches for testing purposes. Please see xref:apply-patches-patchwork[] for more information on using Buildroot's Patchwork website to apply patches. +To give credits to who sponsored the creation of a patch or the process of +upstreaming it add '+sponsor' before the e-mail domain in autorship and in +any possible tag listed above. For a company which sponsored: +"Name Surname <name.surname+companyname@mail.com>" +or in case of a physical person his name and surname all together: +"Name Surname <name.surname+namesurname@mail.com>" + [[apply-patches-patchwork]] ==== Applying Patches from Patchwork
Sometimes it happens that a Company or a Physical Person sponsors the creation and/or the upstreaming process of a patch, but at the moment there is no way to give credits to it. In Linux they prepend '+sponsor' to the e-mail of the contributor in both authorship and commit log tag as discussed here[0]. So let's describe in the manual how to do that as a standard. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20230817220957.41582-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com/ Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com> --- docs/manual/contribute.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)