code sign-off/DCO for ovirt projects

[Ryan Harper]

* Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> [2012-04-06 17:01]:
> 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...

Excellent!  Let me know when you've enabled the backend changes and I'll
confirm I'm seeing Signed-off-by's in the repos.  Let's see if we can
target by Wednesday this week; I'll add an update item to the ovirt irc
agenda to checkpoint.

Thanks everyone for getting this working!

Ryan


> 
> >
> >
> >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
> >Message-ID:<20120403195940.GB5061 at us.ibm.com>
> >User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i
> >To: board at ovirt.org
> >
> >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
> >

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Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
ryanh at us.ibm.com