Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] ArmVirtPkg: Add Platform CI and configuration for Core CI

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 04/28/20 12:23, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 14:21:07 -0700, Michael Kubacki wrote:
>> I believe I misunderstood the conclusion of which Signed-off-by to include
>> in the v1 series discussion - https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/57129.
>>
>> These patches are taken from a branch on Sean's fork of edk2 as noted in the
>> cover letter - https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/58114. Sean has given
>> a Signed-off-by on these patches in that branch.
>>
>> Is the guidance in this case to only include my Signed-off-by?
> 
> Yes. You can only attest to your own legal understanding of a given
> situation, not to that of others - so "passing on" attestations given
> by someone else in a different context ends up being misleading.
> 
> But this isn't the first time this has been misunderstood - perhaps we
> should add an explicit statement to ReadMe.rst (as it will be after
> this set) that "When importing patches from external sources, existing
> Signed-off-by tags must be stripped out.".

That would be nice. I know I need such a reminder.

Thanks
Laszlo