Re: [PATCH 4/8] SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list

Elijah Newren wrote:

Yeah, well it appears that those of us who have been here in Rome for
a while aren't a fan of it anymore either; see also Junio's response
in this thread about that.

Right.

[Josh Soref [off-list ref] wrote:]

quoted

Given that Noticed-by is more common than Co-authored-by, I have a
hard time arguing that it shouldn't be included.

Not if you look at the last three years; there Co-authored-by is more
than 17 times more common than Noticed-by.

Given the large drop-off in usage of the Noticed-by trailer, I'd
suggest just leaving it out.

Perhaps replace

   You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
   such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".

with

   While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we
   encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project
   highlighted above.

?

Let's have some fun (inception):

commit eac2211332f754c5f4127a58aafb9882bfe939e8
Author: Josh Soref [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Dec 20 12:34:54 2023 -0500

    SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers

    There seems to be consensus amongst the core Git community on a working
    set of common trailers, and there are non-trivial costs to people
    inventing new trailers (research to discover what they mean/how they
    differ from existing trailers) such that inventing new ones is generally
    unwarranted and not something to be recommended to new contributors.

    Suggested-by: Elijah Newren [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Josh Soref [off-list ref]

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 32e9023877..58dfe40504 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

@@ -358,4 +358,5 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end:

-You can also create your own tag or use one that's in common usage
-such as "Thanks-to:", "Based-on-patch-by:", or "Mentored-by:".
+While you can also create your own trailer if the situation warrants it, we
+encourage you to instead use one of the common trailers in this project
+highlighted above.