Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/6] target-arm queue

[Anthony Liguori]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 31.10.2013 15:39, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Am 31.10.2013 15:31, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>>>> On 31 October 2013 14:18, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> Peter, since I had picked up the first two patches into my still pending
>>>>> qom-next pull, as per the QEMU Summit discussion those patches should've
>>>>> gotten an Acked-by.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm? I don't recall this part of the discussion. If you want the
>>>> patches to have an Acked-by from you you need to send mail
>>>> to the list with an Acked-by line.
>>>
>>> No, I added a Signed-off-by. It was clearly stated that a Reviewed-by
>>> needs to be explicitly sent as reply but that "looks okay" should in
>>> exactly such a case where sender=submaintainer should be recorded as
>>> Acked-by, and Sob is certainly stronger than Acked-by. Cf. minutes.
>>
>> Nope.  If you want there to be an Acked-by, say "Acked-by:".  Don't
>> make people infer your Acked-bys.
>
> Yes, that's in the minutes. And yes, that's what I got as answer there.
> Please reply to the minutes if you think otherwise.

I

> I brought up exactly this situation where I am contributor to CPU and
> submaintainer of CPU and often not getting Reviewed-bys but if at all,
> such as from Paolo recently, some verbal "looks OK" for a series. I was
> told that that should be turned into an Acked-by on the patches to
> satisfy your criteria that contributors may not just send patches as
> pull without Reviewed-by.
>
>> And adding tags is a nice-to-have.  There is no "rule" stating that
>> you must include everyone that appears on the mailing list.  But I
>> expect that maintainers try to
>
> Again, at QEMU Summit you pushed for making Reviewed-by a must-have and
> we discussed whether a submaintainer must add a Reviewed-by then and
> what to do if author==submaintainer. If you dropped that thought, then
> fine with me.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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