[ovs-dev] [PATCH] CONTRIBUTING: Describe commonly used tags; introduce Reported-at.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 12:35:11PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:28:24AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> This is partly documentation of how patches are tagged in practice in Open
> >> vSwitch.  The bits at the end about "Reported-at:" and "VMware-BZ:" are
> >> an attempt to influence future practices; I cannot say how successful they
> >> will be.
> >> 
> >> I am not sure whether these key-value pairs at the end of commit messages
> >> are actually commonly called "tags".  I'm happy to use a different term if
> >> that one seems wrong.
> >> 
> >> Reported-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>
> >> Reported-at: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-June/040952.html
> >> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> >> ---
> > 
> > Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto at valinux.co.jp>
> 
> how about having a historical note about Bug #xxx somewhere
> as it seems like a FAQ?

That is a good idea.

I added this:

    Bug #1234567.
    Issue: 1234567

        These are obsolete forms of VMware-BZ: that can still be seen
        in old change log entries.  (They are obsolete because they do
        not tell the reader what bug tracker is referred to.)

and I will apply this to master in a minute.