Guidelines for backporting from nagios-plugins?

[Franz Schwartau]

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