Re: Proposal: Add review tags to patch review workflow.

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2022-10-10T09:47:58Z

> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:27:03 +0200
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> From: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
>
> As Simon mentioned, there weren't big changes, but here's a quick cookbook:

Thanks!

> 1. If you have the authority to approve a patch and believe the patch
> you are reviewing is ready to be merged, add the following line to your
> e-mail (usually at the end): Approved-by: Your Name <your_email@example.com>
>
> 2. If you don't have the authority to approve patches, or aren't
> convinced that you know enough about the area of code to fully approve a
> patch for merging, and haven't found any technical issues (i.e.
> non-nitpicks) with the patch, add the following line to your e-mail:
> Reviewed-by: Your Name <your_email@example.com>
>
> 3. If you aren't sure of the quality of the technical changes, but you
> have tested and verified that the patch does not add any regressions,
> add the following line to your e-mail: Tested-by: Your Name
> <your_name@example.com>

I'm not clear what I should do when I approve just part of a patch.
It is frequently the case that a patch includes both code and
documentation, and I'm approving just the documentation part(s). Is
that item 1 or item 2? or something else?