[ovs-dev] [PATCH] CONTRIBUTING: New "Tested-at" tag.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Sep 9 17:19:13 UTC 2015


This seems somewhat useful.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index d48924f..12cb7dc 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -157,6 +157,17 @@ Examples of common tags follow.
         the tag himself in response to an email indicating successful
         testing results.
 
+    Tested-at: <URL>
+
+        When a test report is publicly available, this provides a way
+        to reference it.  Typical <URL>s would be build logs from
+        autobuilders or references to mailing list archives.
+
+        Some autobuilders only retain their logs for a limited amount
+        of time.  It is less useful to cite these because they may be
+        dead links for a developer reading the commit message months
+        or years later.
+
     Reported-by: Reporter Name <reporter.name at email.address...>
 
         When a patch fixes a bug reported by some person, please
-- 
2.1.3




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