Re: Stop false review statements

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 08:41:43AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> 
> > On May 16, 2026, at 8:20 AM, Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 05:11:28AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>> On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>> What the hell is that:
> >>> 
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260515190707.033BDC2BCB0@smtp.kernel.org/
> >>> 
> >>> As a bot you CANNOT MAKE a Reviewer's statement of oversight. You are
> >>> not a damn human do be able to make such statement. You are a bot, a tool.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Where exactly do the rules say that ? I seem to miss that.
> >> 
> >> There is a policy document about _contributions_ made by AI, but I don't
> >> see the one that says that AI agents must not provide Reviewed-by: tags.
> > 
> > From my perspective, AI agents must NOT use the Reviewed-by tag for the
> > following reasons:
> > 
> > - We consider this a "person-trailer" and it implies agency
> > - Adding yourself to a commit via a trailer is a *binding responsibility* for
> >  the change. A lot of tooling will cc the Reviewed-by addresses on follow-up
> >  messages regarding code in this commit. If the address is bogus or doesn't
> >  go to a developer, this is both wasteful and potentially frustrating.
> 
> Hi Konstantin!
> 
> The goal here is to inform maintainers that sashiko has successfully reviewed the patch
> and there were no findings, otherwise maintainers have to go to the web site and check the status.

That's fine.

> I’m not attached to any specific form of it, I thought Reviewed-by is the most obvious form. 
> And we use Reported-by: tags with various tooling for years.

Reported-by: shows the existance of a problem that some tool found, a
subtle difference here.

> What do you think is the best form?
> 
> I’ll pause sending reviewed-by tags until we have a discussion and agreement here.

Just say it in some other text form, that our tools will not pick up.
Like:
	Tool XXXX reports that all is good:
		https://....

or something like that?

thanks,

greg k-h