Pavan Balaji <[email protected]> writes:
AFAIK, signedoff has project specific meaning.
As far as I know, there are only two meanings, the one used by MPICH and the meaning used by the kernel, git.git, AOSP/Gerrit/Google, and other projects. If someone searches the web, all the results will use that meaning (DCO). https://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-signedoffby.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1962094/what-is-the-sign-off-feature-in-g... https://github.com/wking/signed-off-by
Essentially, it’s what we define it to be. I guess we could have used “Reviewed-by”, but I’m not sure it really matters that much.
FWIW, I think it's a needless deviation from a widespread convention.
But you are right, we should document it some place. Maybe the wiki?
Sure, or a CONTRIBUTING document in the repo (easier to search).