The description of the Contributed-by: line in
http://openjdk.java.net/guide/producingChangeset.html
is simply:
The contributed-by line is optional.
That doesn't provide much guidance. Can someone update it to this (or
something similar)?
The contributed-by line is optional; if present, it is a list
of comma-separated email addresses. It should be included
only if the author of the code does not have commit rights to
the target repository, and thus would not otherwise receive
acknowledgement.
-John