Re: [Qemu-devel] We need more reviewers/maintainers!!

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 March 2012 13:52, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 08:50 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> What I have wondered is, is there any semantic difference between "Ack",
>> "Acked", "ACK" and "Acked-by: name<email>"? I.e., when someone replies
>> with "Ack", should one document that as an Acked-by for a PULL?
>
>
> No, Acked-by: name<email> is a formal statement.  You shouldn't infer an
> Acked-by IMHO.

This is in contradiction to the kernel docs we reference, which say:
# Acked-by: is not as formal as Signed-off-by:.  It is a record that the acker
# has at least reviewed the patch and has indicated acceptance.  Hence patch
# mergers will sometimes manually convert an acker's "yep, looks good to me"
# into an Acked-by:.

-- PMM