= Reviewing Patches
:page-parent: Working with Patches
:page-grand_parent: Contributing
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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-or-later OR CC-BY-SA-4.0

To review a patch posted to the
https://spectrum-os.org/participating.html#spectrum-devel[mailing
list], xref:replying.adoc[reply] to it with your feedback.

If you believe the patch is acceptable and should be included in
Spectrum, include a line in your reply like this:

[example]
[listing]
Reviewed-by: John Smith <john@example.com>

This format is recognized by tooling, so any lines in this format in
patch replies will be automatically included in the commit message
when a patch is applied.