wine-staging/ATTRIBUTION.md

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Patch attribution for wine-compholio

The Wine "Compholio" Edition repository expects all patches to conform to Wine's attribution guidelines. There are a variety of ways to attribute patches, but they all involve an additional line to the patch subject:

commit 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Author: Example Author <example.email@email-provider.com>
Date:   Sat Jul 26 12:31:50 2014 -0600

    Name of patch.
    
    TYPE-OF-ATTRIBUTION.

TYPE-OF-ATTRIBUTION can be any of the following:

Found/Spotted by FINDER: The resolved issue was found by FINDER, they should receive appropriate credit for finding the problem - even though their patch was not used in the final implementation.

Based on patch by AUTHOR: The patch created by AUTHOR was a starting point for the patch, some modifications were made to their patch - but they should receive credit since the original implementation was theirs.