User guide: Explain when self approvals are ignored
Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com>
Change-Id: Ieba85c7a521f92c08f8571722c1c6f82d5e099f3
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that votes are sticky across patch sets, then also the code owner approvals
which are based on these votes will be sticky.
+**NOTE:** Whether code owners can approve their own changes depends of the
+definition of the required label. If the label definition has
+[ignoreSelfApproval](../../../Documentation/config-labels.html#label_ignoreSelfApproval)
+enabled, code owner approvals of the patch set uploader are ignored.
+
## <a id="codeOwnerOverride">Code owner override
Usually some privileged users, such as sheriffs, are allowed to override the
