From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC7EC1C07F1; Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1736711973; cv=none; b=TzcxjOQw+LIEefv9V53ThUvUUe/PY7Hox0cVwuk2DVcv/HUdlyW87b9hydyAhhAVUSWMidh9+eFwhgGe2KmvxLY4p2esttd9inYygk0CtXP9+6E6CNrDFhooCT2imTqETkvF6fPsHpv144gjcPPRShUJ/VrMMObOCta/w3jJCAc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1736711973; c=relaxed/simple; bh=EmT0/6rZlSTB8HmFsJzaPuZE6y1Mg8+/N0f492LhROI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=tVC2o0VgA6gpXX/me6fpJj2e6jVMZ2hXbfdAgYxBK8Nc7NiJW7QSubho1BAGzmIWmxsl3nC43RVO7p6tEPpY+jKqQtOFfkR6rJG2YeB+nuWoIuLVEiM8JUDbYRe4RqqormcyRvdopmvEPJJs862oz6wMjVO2U4k7OhLBPcyMx3Q= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=WxN8BMU9; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="WxN8BMU9" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net BBF6840409 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1736711964; bh=LrsNTitHGd3IPIBGiv7yoGBBn65iWAffM97G3kOIwk4=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=WxN8BMU9zthrAmn5OE3O/OMUyBe+ND8c/yMLYQb00M5c6nQIqOhYK9dewNw+P9rZ6 pUZ15D2rf5/oa+HFWkMapXgEZR6e37ow6HQhkkUQx9gMLtgVbbAWu38IvooZj6zr3c SF63OTujrItn8O3LqjHv+T6wJdovWYrsN73U9Z46nCuY/f+bMmhK4DAiNiAifE7OFi 5x7i04IgkYQSVbAlofUqogjwKbdRvGqW4y/Ex+aC7m5q4w4z3wybmG9NkwwEVF50sf 6HBuae0v87iqswoJSbgGz8wN2UjpfelIdf0qIPjXpRLEo3cRvuEVSjYeeDyMdO699L 2LEJBAlNo04Lw== Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:280:5e00:625::1fe]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBF6840409; Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:59:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Neal Gompa , Miguel Ojeda Cc: Miguel Ojeda , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, Sami Tolvanen , Masahiro Yamada , Luis Chamberlain , tech-board@groups.linuxfoundation.org, Steven Rostedt , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linus Torvalds , Shuah Khan , Dan Williams , "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] docs: submitting-patches: clarify difference between Acked-by and Reviewed-by In-Reply-To: References: <20250112152946.761150-1-ojeda@kernel.org> <20250112152946.761150-3-ojeda@kernel.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:59:23 -0700 Message-ID: <878qrfdcro.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Neal Gompa writes: > I've had my Reviewed-by tags silently ignored or deliberately stripped > because even though I've done a technical review, the maintainer does > not believe that I did. Therefore, what I am saying is that > maintainers seem to speciously decide whether an Acked-by or > Reviewed-by tag is appropriate or not *after* someone has sent it. > > This is the fundamental problem I have right now. This decision is not > the maintainer's to make, it is the submitter's. There *are* people who seem to make a game of getting as many such tags into the repository as possible. I think a bit of maintainer discretion is important here; I don't believe that there is a fundamental right to inject a tag into somebody else's patch...? jon