Re: [Xen-devel] Is: Reviewed-by, Acked-by rules. Was:Re: [PATCH v7 10/19] x86/VPMU: Make vpmu not HVM-specific

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 06/11/14 3:57 PM >>>
>On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:07:14AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> I pointed this out on an earlier version of the series, perhaps on
>> another patch (but comments like this should be taken to apply
>> globally): An ack by a non-maintainer of any of the code being
>> modified is bogus/confusing - it should either be Reviewed-by or
>> left off.
>
>That is at odds with what the Linux style has:

I think you said mostly the same when I made a similar statement a couple
of months ago; nothing has changed since then afaict.

>Now obviously Xen != Linux, but if we want to this 'Acked-by' or
>'Reviewed-by' policy to be different from Linux (which I think we
>should not), we should have it written somewhere so folks do not
>get confused.

Exactly - Xen != Linux. We've been following the maintainer-only-ack
style for quite a while now, with infrequent acks from non-maintainers
just ignored (or applied) silently. With this series however, I felt it would
be better to mention the misuse as it has been on more than one patch.

>And I think George has a different opinion of when Reviewed-by
>get carried on patches that undergo modifications. Sadly I don't see
>anything in the Linux Documentation/Submitting* to explain what
>the rules are for that.

I don't recall having a "different" opinion here - at least I agree: With
non-benign changes to a patch, acks and reviews should be dropped.
Fixing bugs in a patch - which I think is the recent case you recall -
is clearly a non-benign change.

In fact I would go farther and suggest that more than a week or two
old tags should also get dropped. There have been a number of cases
not that long ago that new versions of patch series got posted weeks
if not months after the most recent earlier versions. And among them
have been cases where I wasn't really certain whether a tag with my
name was actually validly there, or valid anymore.

Jan


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