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In-Reply-To: (Taylor Blau's message of "Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:02:29 -0400") References: Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:28:01 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Taylor Blau 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.