On 10/8/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 8 2007 19:37, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >snip... > >Acked-by: > >Tested-by: > > * Used by random people to express their (dis)like/experience with the > patch. > > >Reviewed-by: > > * I am maintaner or an 'important' person and have had a > look at it in depth ---
A couple of months ago there was a thread about Acked-by. At that time the consensus seemed to be that it was inappropriate for random people to add Acked-by - that it should only be added by people whose opinion was expected to a gate for merging. Did the Summit reach a decision that Acked-by was for anybody and Reviewed-by was for authorities? I like Randy's point - the assigning of weight to the Reviewer's opinion is necessarily in the hands of those at the top of the merge process and there's no need to ask reviewers to decide whether their opinion matters. In that view, "Acked-by" means "I have no objection to this patch, but don't claim deep review" and "Reviewed-by" means "I have no objection to this patch after a thorough review", and either can be attached by anybody who wants to express an opinion. scott -- scott preece - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/