Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/12/2012 02:39 PM, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> Anthony Liguori writes:
> [...]
> > > My understanding until now was that both Acked-by and Reviewed-by were tags
> > > reserved to people with privileges to write into the repository.
>
> > That's interesting feedback.  These are all documented throughly in Linux's
> > SubmittingPatches (which I think ours refers to).
>
> It does indeed link to that file, but when referring to the "Signed-off-by" tag.
>
> Maybe adding a line there pointing the user to look for a description of
> relevant tags in sections 12 to 14 might help.
>
> Still, it's not completely clear to me the difference between review and ack.

Reviewed-by == you have reviewed a patch in detail and were not able to spot any 
issues with it.  But you are not claiming that you've tested the patch.

Acked-by == weaker than Reviewed-by and usually reserved for submaintainers or 
for someone who needs to approve a change.  It's an indication that you agree 
with the principle of the patch but haven't reviewed it thoroughly.

> BTW, the links in the wiki pointing to CODING_STYLE and HACKING are broken, but
> it seems that I forgot my user name or it has been deleted, and I can no longer
> add an account.

Send me a private note with your desired username.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Lluis