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@@ -239,7 +239,10 @@ consensus to merge a pull request (remember that discussions may have been
spread out over GitHub, mailing list and IRC discussions). The following
language is used within pull-request comments:
- - ACK means "I have tested the code and I agree it should be merged";
+ - (t)ACK means "I have tested the code and I agree it should be merged", involving
+ change-specific manual testing in addition to running the unit and functional
+ tests, and in case it is not obvious how the manual testing was done, it should
+ be described;
- NACK means "I disagree this should be merged", and must be accompanied by
sound technical justification (or in certain cases of copyright/patent/licensing
issues, legal justification). NACKs without accompanying reasoning may be