From patchwork Thu Sep 18 10:24:38 2025 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Quentin Schulz X-Patchwork-Id: 1854 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53204CAC597 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-190a.mail.infomaniak.ch (smtp-190a.mail.infomaniak.ch [185.125.25.10]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.10706.1758191091903413055 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:24:52 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=none (message not signed); spf=pass (domain: 0leil.net, ip: 185.125.25.10, mailfrom: foss+yocto@0leil.net) Received: from smtp-3-0001.mail.infomaniak.ch (smtp-3-0001.mail.infomaniak.ch [10.4.36.108]) by smtp-3-3000.mail.infomaniak.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4cSBb56FdPzJ28; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:24:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown by smtp-3-0001.mail.infomaniak.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4cSBb50nXMzNnd; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:24:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Quentin Schulz Subject: [PATCH 0/7] contributor-guide: submit-changes: improve instructions on commit content Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:24:38 +0200 Message-Id: <20250918-submit-patches-v1-0-28abd2919df0@cherry.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-B4-Tracking: v=1; b=H4sIAObdy2gC/6tWKk4tykwtVrJSqFYqSi3LLM7MzwNyDHUUlJIzE vPSU3UzU4B8JSMDI1MDS0ML3eLSpNzMEt2CxJLkjNRiXZNkI3Nj40TjFFOzFCWgpoKi1LTMCrC B0bG1tQCtleSDYAAAAA== X-Change-ID: 20250918-submit-patches-4c2733a3d56d To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org Cc: Barne Carstensen , Quentin Schulz , Michael Opdenacker X-Mailer: b4 0.14.2 X-Infomaniak-Routing: alpha List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:25:02 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/7543 This hopefully improves instructions on how to write a proper commit for submitting to the Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded various projects. This was prompted by some new contributor following the instructions and coming up with something different than what we had in mind. Then I got carried away and fixed/improved a few other things in this document. This is opinionated from someone who's used to deal with mail-based contribution so please feel free to nitpick/do bikeshedding/suggest something else even more than usual. Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz --- Quentin Schulz (7): contributor-guide: submit-changes: fix improper bold string contributor-guide: submit-changes: clarify example with Yocto bug ID contributor-guide: submit-changes: align CC tag description contributor-guide: submit-changes: make the Cc tag follow kernel guidelines contributor-guide: submit-changes: reword commit message instructions contributor-guide: submit-changes: number instruction list in commit your changes contributor-guide: submit-changes: make "Crediting contributors" part of "Commit your changes" documentation/contributor-guide/submit-changes.rst | 186 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-) --- base-commit: e77139b5c616e6e5ad436eb91416fd804389425f change-id: 20250918-submit-patches-4c2733a3d56d Best regards,