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On 14 October 2013 09:58, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> On 2013-10-14 09:45:38 +1100 (+1100), Angus Salkeld wrote:
>> Note the commit will "authored" by the original poster, so perhaps
>> if you modify a patch we should add a "Modified-by: " line to indicate
>> that it was dual authored.
>
> "We encourage the use of Co-Authored-By: name <name at example.com> in
> commit messages to indicate people who worked on a particular patch.
> It's a convention for recognizing multiple authors, and our projects
> would encourage the stats tools to observe it when collecting
> statistics."
>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages#Including_external_references
>
> That said, if the work I'm doing is trivial fixup to someone else's
> change and I'm not substantially contributing to the overall
> idea/implementation, I don't bother to add one... only if it's a
> significant departure from/improvement on the original author's
> work.

While we're talking about attribution - it's polite to reassign the
bug to the original author when it finally merges, since launchpad
automatically assigns you whenever you push a new patchset.

Kieran

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