Berker, I don't mind if people mark their own patches for commit review *when they think it is ready for commit*.  (Just as with reviewers, if they start being consistently right, they are ready for commit privs :)  However, a non-committer setting a patch to commit review is waving a hand for attention from a core dev, and that should only be done *after* a patch has been *reviewed* and judged ready for final review before commit.

(I broke my own rule the other day and got in trouble, though...I set a patch to commit review to remind myself to review it rather than because I thought it was commit ready already, and it got committed...)