Re: [PATCH] Avoid warning when From: is encoded

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Jon Loeliger wrote:

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

quoted

Acked-by is reserved for people who are "owners" of the area the patch
touches.

I love pronouncements like this.  While that may be exactly true
for the Git project, it is not, in general, always true.

It may not be true in general, but from what I heard of the Kernel 
community, even there it is considered rude if you just step in and say 
ACK, when you clearly have no idea what you are talking about (which is 
normally determined by your being involved in that area).

So you can love (or not) pronouncements like that, but the fact still 
stands true: how can your ACK be of any value (or for that matter, how can 
your ACK be taken seriously) when you haven't proven -- in code! -- that 
you understand the code?

Hthab,
Dscho