GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 follow up: "Reviewed-by" etc.

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Thomas Schwinge wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Still waiting for any kind of reaction -- general process-change inertia,
> chicken-and-egg problem, I suppose.  ;-/
> 
> I have now put the proposed text onto a wiki page, so that those
> interested have a convenient handle to use,
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Reviewed-by>.

That wiki page refers to Reviewed-by as being about crediting reviewers.  
But the specification appears to be oriented to something else entirely 
(i.e. convincing a committer - in a Linux-kernel-like context with a very 
limited set of committers to a particular tree, much smaller than the set 
of reviewers - that a patch is worthy of commit).  It doesn't cover 
reviews that request changes, or only relate to part of a patch, or relate 
to a previous version of a patch - only the limited special case of a 
review approving the entirety of a patch as posted.  If the aim is credit, 
a substantially different specification is needed.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com