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Date:      Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:00:34 -0800
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        koobs@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "bugmeister@freebsd.org" <bugmeister@FreeBSD.org>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Approving a patch
Message-ID:  <2A646BF8-F061-4C8D-ACD3-A08DBF1EF5F0@lafn.org>
In-Reply-To: <54F6AA26.1080404@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 3 March 2015, at 22:45, Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Canonically and preferred:
>=20
> Set maintainer-approval flag to + *on the attachment/patch*.
>=20
> The maintainer-feedback flag is at the issue/bug scope, not the
> attachment/patch scope.
>=20
> This of course requires the maintainer-approval flag was set to ? with
> your email as the value first.
>=20
> Currently this is not automatic, but *should be* if there is an
> attachment of type: patch in the issue. I'll create an issue for that
> now for bugmeister@ to look into addressing.
>=20
> Only in cases where maintainer-approval is *not* already set to"?", is
> using the maintainer-feedback flag + comment flow OK.
>=20
> Setting maintainer-feedback is ambiguous, and is used to prove
> 'acknowledgement' of an issue or question.
>=20
> This is especially the case when there are multiple version of =
patches,
> or patches from multiple contributors. In future it will be used to
> derive "maintainer timeouts" to kick issues along, and open them up =
for
> someone else to make a decision on.
>=20
> tldr; Set the maintainer-approval flag to +
>=20

Thanks to all who replied.  I found and set the maintainer-feedback flag =
at the issue/bug scope.  I couldn=E2=80=99t find any similar flag at the =
attachment/patch scope.  Nothing there was really applicable.




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