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

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2022-10-10T13:15:12Z

> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:31:54 +0200
> Cc: simark@simark.ca, gdb@sourceware.org
> From: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
>
> On 10/10/2022 13:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:11:46 +0200
> >> Cc: simark@simark.ca, gdb@sourceware.org
> >> From: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.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?
> >>>
> >> It's a bit up to you, if I'm honest. I would default to telling you to
> >> use Reviewed-by, to avoid confusion, but if you want to say that the
> >> "documentation parts are Approved-by", I am fine with it.
> >>
> >> Just let me know if you decide to go with the second, so I can mention
> >> in the wiki something like "make sure all of your patch is approved
> >> before pushing".
> > I don't mind either way. This whole thing is a service to others, so
> > I'll do whatever people prefer. Let me just point out that my
> > situation is not too unique: several other maintainers can approve
> > only parts of patches.
> Ah, so I'll suggest that you approve the documentation changes, and I'll
> mention that some approvers may sometimes only approve part of the
> patch, so one should make sure the whole patch is approved before pushing.

I'm not sure I understand: do you mean that I should not use _any_ tag
at all, when the patch includes more than just documentation?