Jan Engelhardt wrote:Tested-by is more valuable than acked-by, because its empirical. Acked-by generally means "I don't generally object to the idea of the patch, but may not have read beyond the changelog". Tested-by implies "I did something that exercised the patch, and it didn't explode" - that's on par with an actual review (ideally all patches would be both tested and reviewed). Hm. We have a tension here: * there aren't enough reviewers * some reviews are more useful than others While a review by a trustworthy person is invaluable, we don't want to discourage people from reviewing. A new reviewer's review may not be terribly useful, but a meta-review may help improve it. Or it could be a great review. I guess I'm proposing that we also need to expand the reviewer base, and to do so we need some kind of reviewer-mentoring or metareview process. Of course that could just be an extra burden on the existing (small) trusted reviewer base, but the hope is that over time the reviewer pool size grows enough to make the effort worthwhile... Well, any interested parties, really. I use it for original bug reporters, people who followed up on the report, people who have patches in a nearby area, people who are known to be interested in the affected subsystem, people who have reviewed previous versions of the patch, etc... J -
| Linus Torvalds | Linux 2.6.27-rc8 |
| Greg KH | [patch 00/71] 2.6.26-stable review |
| Dmitry Torokhov | 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions |
| jimmy bahuleyan | Re: Hibernation considerations |
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| Petr Baudis | [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer |
| Jan Hudec | Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir |
| Jay Soffian | Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Support caching projects list |
| Mark Levedahl | Allowing override of the default "origin" nickname |
| Richard Stallman | Real men don't attack straw men |
| Leon Dippenaar | New tcp stack attack |
| Luca Dell'Oca | Authenticate squid in Active Directory |
| Todd Pytel | IDE or SCSI virtual disks for VMWare image? |
| Jarek Poplawski | Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock(). |
| Matthew Dharm | Re: [RFC] Patch to option HSO driver to the kernel |
| Ingo Molnar | Re: [bug] stuck localhost TCP connections, v2.6.26-rc3+ |
| David Miller | Re: [GIT PULL] [IPV6] COMPAT: Fix SSM applications on 64bit kernels. |
