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Re: [PATCH] Avoid warning when From: is encoded

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 26, 2008, 02:53 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0807260449490.26810@eeepc-johanness>
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Hi,
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Jon Loeliger wrote:
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> Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> 
> > Acked-by is reserved for people who are "owners" of the area the patch
> > touches.
> 
> I love pronouncements like this.  While that may be exactly true
> for the Git project, it is not, in general, always true.

It may not be true in general, but from what I heard of the Kernel community, even there it is considered rude if you just step in and say ACK, when you clearly have no idea what you are talking about (which is normally determined by your being involved in that area).

So you can love (or not) pronouncements like that, but the fact still stands true: how can your ACK be of any value (or for that matter, how can your ACK be taken seriously) when you haven't proven -- in code! -- that you understand the code?

Hthab, Dscho

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Message 5 of 7 in “Avoid warning when From: is encoded”
  1. Avoid warning when From: is encodedPeter Valdemar Mørch, Jul 25, 2008
  2. Abhijit Menon-SenJul 25, 2008
  3. Sverre RabbelierJul 25, 2008
  4. Jon LoeligerJul 25, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinJul 26, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 25, 2008
  7. Jeff KingJul 25, 2008

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