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Date:	Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:57:41 -0700
From:	"Scott Preece" <sepreece@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:

On 6/2/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> ...
> +The Signed-off-by: tag implies that the signer was involved in the development
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Change "implies" to "indicates" - it's an explicit statement, not an
implication.

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> +of the patch, or that he/she was in the patch's delivery path.
> +
> +If a person was not directly involved in the preparation or handling of a
> +patch but wishes to signify and record their approval of it then they can
> +arrange to have an Acked-by: line added to the patch's changelog.
> +
> +Acked-by: is often used by the maintainer of the affected code when that
> +maintainer neither contributed to nor forwarded the patch themselves.
---

This using plural pronouns for indefinite gender leaves one in vague
territory, but I think "themself" would be better than "themselves,
since "maintainer" is singular.

---
> +
> +Acked-by: is not as formal as Signed-off-by:.  It is a record that the acker
> +has at least reviewed the patch and has indicated acceptance.  Hence patch
> +mergers will sometimes manually covert an acker's "yep, looks good to me" into
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"covert" -> "convert"

---
> +an Acked-by:.
> +
> +Acked-by: does not necessarily indicate acknowledgement of the entire patch.
> +For example, if a patch affects multiple subsystems and has an Acked-by: from
> +one subsystem maintainer then this usually indicates acknowledgement of just
> +the part which affects that maintainer's code.  Judgement should be used here.
> +When in doubt people should refer to the original discussion in the mailing
> +list archives.
> +
> +
> +14) The canonical patch format
>
>  The canonical patch subject line is:
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