aaron.ballman added inline comments.

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Comment at: lldb/CodeOwners.rst:7-8
+particular part of LLDB are reviewed, either by themself or by someone else.
+They are also the gatekeepers for their part of LLDB, with the final word on
+what goes in or not.
+
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tonic wrote:
> JDevlieghere wrote:
> > DavidSpickett wrote:
> > > JDevlieghere wrote:
> > > > DavidSpickett wrote:
> > > > > This could be taken to mean every review must have approval from a 
> > > > > code owner, on top of whatever other review has been done. Is that 
> > > > > the intent? Someone coming from a project with strong maintainer 
> > > > > rules (e.g. GDB, so I gather) may take it that way.
> > > > I copied this from the Clang `CodeOwners.rst` with the aim of being 
> > > > consistent, but I'm happy to tweak it. We  could qualify the last 
> > > > sentence with something like "when consensus cannot be reached" or if 
> > > > we think "gatekeeper" is too strong of a work maybe we can use 
> > > > "tie-breaker", though I like that the former implies a sense of duty. 
> > > > Happy to take suggestions!
> > > My understanding was that llvm in general didn't have this hard 
> > > requirement for an owner to acknowledge every review.
> > > 
> > > So yeah:
> > > "They are also the gatekeepers for their part of LLDB, with the final 
> > > word on what goes in or not when consensus cannot be reached."
> > > 
> > > Sounds good to me.
> > > My understanding was that llvm in general didn't have this hard 
> > > requirement for an owner to acknowledge every review.
> > 
> > Yup, that's my understanding as well!
> > 
> I would not put policy regarding code owners in this document. The policy is 
> already in the DeveloperPolicy for the project. You could reference back to 
> that document if you want. 
Good suggestion! I'm going to make similar changes to the Clang code owners 
file.


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