Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio, what will you do in such situation above (celebrities reviewing > patches and giving Reviewed-by despite of lack of subject matter > expertise)? I find the scenario highly unlikely, and I do not see the point of wasting my time on a trick question, thinking about what I would do in a scenario that is not realistic, so I was tempted to ignore this message. If you have something you really want to ask, ask it directly instead. But I'll make it an exception this case, since you are relatively new. I do not think the celebrity status of a person who sends a Reviewed-by matters. What matters aroud here is the quality of review that comes with "Reviewed-by". Just a "Reviewed-by" without comments would most likely not count at all, unless the perceived competence and expertise the reviewer possesses in the area is reasonably high. The "perceived" is a rather important word here. It does not matter how good one actually is. One must have had demonstrated one's competence and expertise on the list sufficiently to earn trust by other readers on the list for one's "Reviewed-by" to really count. "I read the patch with fine toothed comb, I found it very well done, I have nothing else to add.", coming from somebody who is KNOWN to know the area the patch touches well, would mean a lot. When the same statement was given by somebody who hasn't earned the trust of the collective mind on the list, regardless of the celebrity status, would mean a lot less.
