docs: add information about reviewing patches
Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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it harder for reviewers to accidentally review old patches.
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</p>
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<h3>Reviewing Patches</h3>
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<p>
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When you've reviewed a patch on the mailing list, please be unambiguous
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about your review. That is, state either
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<pre>
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Reviewed-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
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or
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<pre>
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Acked-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
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</pre>
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Rather than saying just "LGTM" or "Seems OK".
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If small changes are suggested, it's OK to say something like:
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<pre>
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With the above fixes, Reviewed-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@foo.com>
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</pre>
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which tells the patch author that the patch can be committed, as long
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as the issues are resolved first.
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</p>
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<h3>Marking a commit as a candidate for a stable branch</h3>
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