User guide: Explain when self approvals are ignored Signed-off-by: Edwin Kempin <ekempin@google.com> Change-Id: Ieba85c7a521f92c08f8571722c1c6f82d5e099f3
diff --git a/resources/Documentation/user-guide.md b/resources/Documentation/user-guide.md index 29a3b37..70dfaeb 100644 --- a/resources/Documentation/user-guide.md +++ b/resources/Documentation/user-guide.md
@@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ 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