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- If the author of the pull request is not a committer, a committer must be the one to approve the change.
- If the author of the pull request is a committer, approval from their chosen reviewer is enough. A committer is trusted to choose an appropriate reviewer, even if the reviewer is not a committer.
- Code modifications cannot be approved by silence: the patch should be committed if and only if committer is confident with the changes.
Once a pull request is approved, any committer can merge it.
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