Guidelines for backporting from nagios-plugins?
Franz Schwartau
franz at electromail.org
Mon Jun 12 21:41:31 CEST 2023
Hi Lorenz,
thanks for your answer.
On 09/06/2023 16:14, Lorenz wrote:
> Hi Franz
>
> On 05.06.23 18:11, Franz Schwartau wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to backport some features from nagios-plugins to monitoring-plugins for check_smtp. Some of these features were committed by me, while others were contributed by different authors.
>
> That would be great!
>
>> Are there any guidelines I should follow? Should I mention the authors of the changes from nagios-plugins in the commits for monitoring-plugins? Additionally, is it necessary to include a reference to the corresponding change in nagios-plugins within the commit message?
>
> I am not sure about the jurisdical implications, but IMHO idealy you can take the original commit(s) (including the author).
> If that is not possible, the author should be mentioned in the commit.
>
> Referencing the original commits, issues and PRs in nagios-plugins would be quite helpful.
I prepared the commits and will create a PR per feature/bugfix.
>> Best regards,
>> Franz
>
> Kind regards
> Lorenz
Best regards,
Franz
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