From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:28:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] How to accellerate the patch flow (or should we?)
Message-ID: <xmqqbjmr4re6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aNw3VY7npZvHDU7i@nand.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> (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.