On 19 July 2015 21:33:43 BST, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> wrote: >On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:45:29AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >> Thanks for looking through these. >> >> Just to let you know, there is currently a rather extended discussion >going >> on (as part of a suggested topic for the kernel summit) about when >reviewed-by >> tags are appropriate. >> >> The general feeling is they must in someway indicate some substantial >work. Here >> as a result I'd say it was appropriate for patch 6 whereas an >Acked-by >> would be more appropriate for the cleanups (where there is nothing >'interesting'). >> I've left these as reviewed by for this set though! >> >> Note to all reviewers I may also start added reviewed by tags that >you haven't sent if >> I happen to feel you made a big contribution to review of a patch, >but perhaps haven't >> revisited later versions. I'll probably send out an email about this >outside >> of this thread at some point to get possible wider circulation. >> > >I didn't necessarily read the thread that way, but the thread was >long... I think of Acked-by by as "I approve." which is different from >I reviewed this carefully. I seldom Ack anything since I'm not an >official maintainer of anything so no one cares if I approve or not. >Sometimes I really really approve something so I will Ack it even >though >maybe no one cares. > >I don't like the idea of someone adding my Reviewed-by tag because >that's a quite serious tag for me and if it has bugs then I will feel >responsible. That is fair enough. Maybe I will just need to pester people more about taking a final look and giving tags if they want to or actively stating they don't mind not tagging a patch.
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