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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:09:47 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
Cc:        sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml authors.ent doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors article.sgml
Message-ID:  <20020701150947.D25785@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020701214430.880793E1E@turbine.trit.org>; from dima@trit.org on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:44:30PM %2B0000
References:  <20020701154046.GN85531@starjuice.net> <20020701214430.880793E1E@turbine.trit.org>

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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:44:30PM +0000, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Isn't this backwards?  "Reviewed by" implies "Approved by", but not
> the other way around; a maintainer (or mentor) might "Approve" a patch
> without necessarily looking at ("Reviewing") it, but someone that
> "Reviewed" a patch always "Approves" it.  The text you proposed for
> the Committers' Guide has the same problem.

I'm pretty sure you're confused.  "Reviewed by" just means you read the
patch and don't object to it.  "Approved by" means you grant permission to
commit it based on your authority to do so (as a mentor, a maintainer, a
hat, etc).  In general approval implies review, though certain exceptions
such as some doc commits during code freeze exist.

-- Brooks

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