Re: [PATCH v3] gnu: Add python-psycopg2, python2-psycopg2

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Leo Famulari writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 09:53:17AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> >> This looks ready to go, though it still lacks a changelog style commit
> >> message, and it isn't formatted with git format-patch.
> >> 
> >> I could commit it myself with that, but I don't know if that would be
> >> acceptable?  (And should I commit it under my name, or set the author
> >> name to Danny?  I would certainly want to attribute to Danny.)
> >
> > It's actually possible to put anything you want in the '--author' field
> > when committing. There is also '--sign-off', which you can use to
> > indicate your approval of the author's patch. These options also exist
> > in some other git tools, notably `git am`.
> 
> Ok, good call.  I probably should have done --sign-off, which I forgot
> to, but I did commit it under Danny and pushed it.

It's useful but not essential, especially since you can make it say
anything you want. The only way to *really* know who wrote what is to
sign everything cryptographically.