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Message-ID: <7b69d1470706011237j50f29e4ch73f86acdc294fecd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:37:54 -0500
From: "Scott Preece" <sepreece@...il.com>
To: "Krzysztof Halasa" <khc@...waw.pl>
Cc: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] document Acked-by:
On 6/1/07, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> wrote:
> "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com> writes:
>
> > Indeed. Acked-by: implies authority, and only very few people should be
> > able to do it. Namely, the only person who can ACK a patch is a person who
> > could also NACK a patch and expect it to actually be dropped. If I think a
> > patch is bad, I can say so, but as I have no authority, my statement would
> > be taken on merit alone, whereas Linus or Andrew or such could just NACK
> > it and move on without having to spew a blurb every time.
>
> Everyone always has some authority so everyone can ack or nack any
> patch and I hope the action taken will always depend on merit
> rather than person, especially if it's a technical issue and not
> some style etc. thing.
> --
> Krzysztof Halasa
---
This is a question worth answering - is it rude to ack/nak a patch if
you're not a maintainer or otherwise known-to-be-trusted, or is it OK
for anyone to express an opinion? Andrew's patch text seems to imply
that it's generally OK.
scott
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