Re: GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 follow up: "Reviewed-by" etc.

Joseph Myers
2017-10-19T16:45:44Z

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Still waiting for any kind of reaction -- general process-change inertia,
> chicken-and-egg problem, I suppose. ;-/
>
> I have now put the proposed text onto a wiki page, so that those
> interested have a convenient handle to use,
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Reviewed-by>.

That wiki page refers to Reviewed-by as being about crediting reviewers.
But the specification appears to be oriented to something else entirely
(i.e. convincing a committer - in a Linux-kernel-like context with a very
limited set of committers to a particular tree, much smaller than the set
of reviewers - that a patch is worthy of commit). It doesn't cover
reviews that request changes, or only relate to part of a patch, or relate
to a previous version of a patch - only the limited special case of a
review approving the entirety of a patch as posted. If the aim is credit,
a substantially different specification is needed.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com