[Koha-devel] Signing-off a patch for a customer

[Marc Balmer]

Am 28.05.12 16:48, schrieb Paul Poulain:
> Hello koha-devel,
> 
> I just pushed a follow-up for bug 6858. If you look at the patch, you'll
> see that the author is from BibLibre, as well as the sign-offer. But if
> you look more carefully on the patch comments, you may understand that
> Stephane Delaye has signed-off "in the name of the library". We're
> facing here a case where the library don't want/can't sign-off their
> patch (they don't know how to do it and don't want to bother with doing
> it. They just said this patch worked for them)
> 
> At BibLibre, we have 3 project managers: Stéphane Delaye / Gaetan
> Boisson / François Charbonnier. They are librarians and are doing the
> glue between the library our customer and our developers.
> they know how to sign-off a patch.
> 
> I want, in this mail, request that those 3 ppl from BibLibre (and only
> them) can be sign-offers for patches written by another BibLibre
> developer, once the library has confirmed it works.
> 
> I propose that we define a standard message, something like
> Signed-off-by: Delaye Stephane <stephane.delaye at biblibre.com>
>   patch validated by <LIBRARY NAME>, signed-off in their name
> 
> Can I have your agreement with this idea ?

I have absolutely no problem with this.  To me it sounds like

"signed of by stephane delaye of biblibre, on behalf of <LIBRARY NAME>",
which is a perfectly fine proxy situation.

> (of course, in case another support provider has the same kind of
> situation, this would also be applicable. It's not something I want for
> BibLibre only)

- Marc