errata for Contributed-by

iris clark iris at sun.com
Thu Mar 6 15:12:08 PST 2008


> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:18:36 -0800
> From: Jonathan Gibbons <Jonathan.Gibbons at sun.com>
> Subject: errata for Contributed-by
> 
> http://openjdk.java.net/guide/producingChangeset.html#create lists this 
> example for a changeset message:
> 
> 1234567: NPE thrown on FileInputStream("")
> Summary: Rewrite precondition-checking code in io.c
> Reviewed-by: mr
> Contributed-by: Ben Bitdiddle <ben at bits.org>
> 
> In practice, it seems jcheck requires a real email address. At any rate, 
> it gave me
> an unspecific "invalid contributor attribution" when I tried to follow 
> the example.

Oops.  When I was removing "@" from e-mail addresses, I was just a
tiny bit too aggressive.  

:(

I'll have to see what jcheck looks for.  I'm hoping that it allows the
something like this:

  Contributed-by: Ben Bitdiddle <ben at bits.org>

Rather than just 

  Contributed-by: ben at bits.org

iris




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