code sign-off/DCO for ovirt projects

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/06/2012 06:00 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
> Re-sending this to arch as in our meeting this week we agreed[1] no reason
> to not implement DCO (http://kerneltrap.org/files/Jeremy/DCO.txt) but
> that we needed to enlist the maintainers to work out enforcement.

that's easy enough since we use gerrit.
if acked by all, i can simply enable 'force sign-off' on patches option 
in gerrit and it will be enforced...

>
>
> 1. http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/arch/2012-April/000433.html
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Ryan Harper<ryanh at us.ibm.com>  -----
>
> From: Ryan Harper<ryanh at us.ibm.com>
> Subject: code sign-off/DCO for ovirt projects
> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:59:40 -0500
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> I see that this was discussed in the past on the board list[1] and there
> didn't seem to be any disagreement with doing DCO sign-off for code
> contributions.  However, not all of the ovirt projects are doing
> DCO/Sign-off.  There are a few commits in vdms.git that have a SoB,
> ovirt-node seems to be using DCO completely.  Nothing in ovirt-engine
> either.  I didn't check all of the ovirt subprojects, but I think
> it's safe to assume that's not being applied across all of the
> projects consistently.
>
> Can we get that added to the commit process for these projects moving
> forward? Is there anything else needed beyond maintainers enforcing the
> need for SoB in patches?
>
>
> 1. http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/board/2011-October/000168.html
>