Proposed revised format for JDK commit messages

[Erik Helin]

On 09/17/2018 06:29 PM, Erik Helin wrote:
> How about changing whats get recorded for a sponsored commit? We could 
> let the author be recorded in the author field and then have a 
> "Sponsored-by" line? This way we could also encode the sponshorship for 
> commits from a person with role "Author" (the "Author" would of course 
> be the author and we would add an "Sponsored-by" line for the sponsor).

...and, as usual when not thinking about a problem for a while, a third 
idea popped up :)

We could utilize the fact that git has two different fields in a commit 
for recording different kinds of authorship:
- committer
   The person who applied, ev. merged and then pushed the patch
- author
   The person who created the patch

Git's notion of committer is fairly close to our concept of sponsor (a 
sponsor has a bit more responsibility than just committing and pushing 
the patch). So another suggestion would therefore be to utilize the 
committer field for recording the sponsor.

For "regular" pushes from a person with role "Committer" or above, the 
committer field and the author field would be the same (assuming the 
person with "Committer" status also wrote the patch).

So, two suggestions for encoding sponsorship while still letting author 
mean author:
- add a "Sponsored-by" line
- use the committer field for recording the sponsor

What do you think?

Thanks,
Erik