how to pre-screen patch submissions from a newbie janitor?

Wolfram Sang w.sang at pengutronix.de
Tue May 18 20:01:37 EDT 2010


>   however, since he's new to patch creation and submission, i offered
> to "vet" his patches first.  i realize that my vetting carries no
> weight on the MTD list, but given that i've submitted lots and lots of
> patches elsewhere, i can still at least sanity check what he comes up
> with before it hits the list.
> 
>   is there a canonical signage for that nowadays?  is it "Reviewed-By"
> or something like that?  so that by the time it gets to the MTD list,
> he would have done the "Signed-Off-By" and i'd sign off as a reviewer.
> is that the way it works?  or is there an alternative?  thanks.

Yes, that sounds like a good case for Reviewed-by. It will surely help these
patches knowing there is somebody with experience who already had a look at
(and in that case probably build-tested) them.

Looking forward to the series,

   Wolfram

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