From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Survey Results - Part 1 : Improving Xen Project Governance and Conventions Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:29:53 +0100 Message-ID: <1444123793.5302.74.camel@citrix.com> References: <0F60A9E1-7AE3-4FEC-9549-7B7F85EAA583@gmail.com> <5612A60302000078000A82D7@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Lars Kurth , Jan Beulich Cc: Xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 23:31 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > I am not sure whether the hierarchy would require everyone to ACK. As far > as I understand Linux does this without (but I suppose the ACK is > replaced by a pull request the next level up the hierarchy, which sort of > is like one). That's my understanding, by forwarding it to the next level a maintainer is in effect acking it (in fact they would normally add a S-o-b per 3(c) of the DCO). Ian.