Re: Stop false review statements

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 05:11:28AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > What the hell is that:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260515190707.033BDC2BCB0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > As a bot you CANNOT MAKE a Reviewer's statement of oversight. You are
> > not a damn human do be able to make such statement. You are a bot, a tool.
> > 
> 
> Where exactly do the rules say that ? I seem to miss that.
> 
> There is a policy document about _contributions_ made by AI, but I don't
> see the one that says that AI agents must not provide Reviewed-by: tags.

>From my perspective, AI agents must NOT use the Reviewed-by tag for the
following reasons:

- We consider this a "person-trailer" and it implies agency
- Adding yourself to a commit via a trailer is a *binding responsibility* for
  the change. A lot of tooling will cc the Reviewed-by addresses on follow-up
  messages regarding code in this commit. If the address is bogus or doesn't
  go to a developer, this is both wasteful and potentially frustrating.

-K