On 6/1/07, Krzysztof Halasa <[email protected]> wrote:
"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <[email protected]> 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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