[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] amdk8_sysconf.h type corrected

[Uwe Hermann]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:42:47PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Peter Stuge <stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org> wrote:
> 
> > Please have a look at http://linuxbios.org/Development_Guidelines
> > and specifically the "How to contribute" section, so your patches
> > can make it into svn faster.
> 
> apropos this comment. Could someone add a little clarification about
> what happens once an Acked-by: is added?
> 
> I would assume that if someone with commit rights adds an acked-by:,
> they take responsibility for the commit. But that is not spelled out.

Yes, basically. The Signed-off-by is legally important to have a clear
statement from the contributors that they can and want to legally contribute
the code under the GPL etc., while the Acked-by is just a mechanism to
somewhat enforce peer review of the patches.

One Acked-by is the minimum which is required to be able to commit a
patch (the more the better, of course). This means at least two people
looked at the patch and didn't notice any glaring bugs/problems (the
patch submitter + the one who sent the Acked-by).

People without svn commit access are welcome to review patches and send
Acked-by's too, but obviously someone _with_ commit access has to do
the actual commit then.


Cheers, Uwe.
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