Re: Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

Dear Jan,


On 02/06/17 10:32, Jan Iversen wrote:

> The gerrit allows people with committer status, to push patches for other people. In that case the 
> email addr, from the person pushing becomes committer email, and the email from from patch owner 
> becomes the author.
>
> To do this please remember to use —author and —author-email in the commit statement.

Thank you, but I knew that already.

(Please note, that your mailer mangles `--` to `—`.

> No-committers cannot push patches on behalf of of others, because it would require 3 emails 
> addresses in git (the email who merges the patch (the committer), the one who submitted the patch 
> (the committer) and the author).

I don’t see how that is required. In Gerrit, it would still be clear, 
who pushed the patch (owner).

As written, Signed-off-by lines would be a solution, if you want to 
record that information.

> I am happy to help you push the patch, with the correct author.

Please tell me how. Do you want me send the patch to the mailing list?


Kind regards,

Paul Menzel