Re: [RFC] How to accellerate the patch flow (or should we?)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 30, 2025, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqbjmr4re6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aNw3VY7npZvHDU7i@nand.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

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> (As an aside, in the pseudo-patch I wrote above, the maintainer could
> choose to bypass the process entirely, since it would continue to be at
> their discretion. Perhaps that's just a semantics thing, since by
> merging the series the maintainer is implicitly providing their own
> "ack", without actually saying so.)

This is exactly the reason why I keep saying "being in 'seen' has no meaning other than I happened to have seen, not more than that". A topic queued in 'seen' by default has no "ack" from me or anybody.