On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 10:03:23AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Actually, reducing the signal to a single bit, 'did I or did I not
see a +1 from them?', means Gerrit users see less 'spam' but must
make decisions based on too little signal. I do not know whether
that is an advantage.
With your email, we can at least discern that your comment is much
closer to an 'Acked-by' than a 'Reviewed-by', and we can respect
that distinction when judging whether there is sufficient consensus
on the list to move the topic forward.
gerrit discerns from -2 to +2 (*), so that angle is covered (**).
https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-labels.html#label_Code-Review
(*) actually however many levels the project chooses to configure,
though things aren't as smooth when deviating from the defaults
(**) mostly - https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40000793