[ltp] tp_smapi

[Bjørn Mork]

Wade Curry <wade-ml-linux-thinkpad@syntaxman.org> writes:

> Being that Multinymous means "many names", and "Shem" is Hebrew for
> "name", I assumed that the previous maintainer was more of a
> corporate sponsor/team.  Who is it that is actually handing over
> the reigns to the project?

If you accept an alias for the other submissions, then I can't see how
you can refuse the alias signing a maintainership transfer as well.  You
have no other options, do you?

This demonstrates *one* of the downsides of using an alias like that...

Another downside is that the maintainership transfer won't change the
fact that most of the code lack a proper sign-off.  See e.g.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.hdaps.devel/797

Now, anyone can of course do "git log --author=multinymous" and find
this commit:

 commit 2e0c1f6ce7b816f63fea2af3e5e2cb20c66430e9
 Author: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>
 Date:   Fri Sep 29 01:59:37 2006 -0700

     [PATCH] DMI: Decode and save OEM String information
    
but I believe the difference between that one and the tp_smapi driver is
explained very well by Andrew Morton (who also signed it off) in the
same thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.hdaps.devel/792



Bjørn