From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid warning when From: is encoded Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:53:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1216991208-18782-1-git-send-email-4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> <20080725131625.GA11221@toroid.org> <488A01B8.2010405@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: sverre@rabbelier.nl, Abhijit Menon-Sen , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Peter_Valdemar_M=F8rch?= <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org To: Jon Loeliger X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 26 04:53:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KMZuU-0003q1-37 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:53:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752248AbYGZCwa (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:52:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752224AbYGZCw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:52:29 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44768 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751545AbYGZCw3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:52:29 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2008 02:52:27 -0000 Received: from 88-107-142-10.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (EHLO eeepc-johanness.st-andrews.ac.uk) [88.107.142.10] by mail.gmx.net (mp040) with SMTP; 26 Jul 2008 04:52:27 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18GiQ9xhowGNYmtPFJyiryuY+fXNc8iUg8Wjl0XPp Pdwg3ofWdqOXL1 X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <488A01B8.2010405@freescale.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.67 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Jon Loeliger wrote: > 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