Hi Everyone,

I wanted to remind you about two important things to consider when writing your patch comments for Linaro. I've been seeing some occasional upstream patches lately which have problems with a) attributions in the comments and b) traceability.

So please...

1) Use your Linaro email address if you have it and also include your member/partner company

e.g. Joey Stanford joey@linaro.org for the Samsung Landing Team e.g. Joey Stanford joey@linaro.org assigned to Linaro from IBM e.g. Joey Stanford joey@personaladdress.net for Linaro

Currently I see patches submitted as "Joey Stanford joey@canonical.com" with no reference to Linaro at all. This is a problem firstly because we aren't attributing the code fully and secondly it reduces the awareness in the Open Source community of the benefits Linaro brings to the table.

2) If your work is based upon a bug or blueprint in Launchpad, or any other system for that matter, please:

a) Put these in the bzr/git revision log via commit comment. Most of you are doing this and it's great. If you aren't, please do this. b) Consider including that in the comments for traceability.

e.g. Fix for audio stack failure on IMX.53 Launchpad Bug #123 e.g. Implement Graphics acceleration on Origen, Google Code Issue #123

Today we are aware of some of our members who are grep'ing patch comments, but not revision logs, to extract this information and are not finding the details of what the patch fixes. I realize this somewhat of an edge case but every bit helps for traceability.

Thanks,

Joey