Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:14:52 -0800 (PST) From: root@FreeBSD.ORG (Root hub.FreeBSD.ORG) To: freebsd-policy@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Core policy statement 19991124 Message-ID: <19991124211452.EA57514EEB@hub.freebsd.org>
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During this past weekend, one of the committers to The FreeBSD Project announced that he is unilaterally suspending the conditions under which his commit privileges were granted. If that person follows through on this threat, such action will result in that person losing their commit privileges. Commit privileges are based upon trust and mutual respect. Unilateral declarations are a breach of that trust. This committer has complained of a "double standard". The FreeBSD Project has different standards in various areas of the operating system, its applications and its ports. Critical areas of the system require more strenuous review. Newer committers are subject to greater oversight than established committers. Regarding the recent accusation that a core member, Poul-Henning Kamp, hasn't been getting certain changes sufficiently reviewed: Poul-Henning Kamp knows when his changes are complicated to the point of requiring review, and we trust him on this. As far as Poul-Henning Kamp asking for review, there have been several requests for committers to pull patches from his Web site and review them. We frequently find requests for review in our mailboxes where his changes were invasive or touched on more complicated areas of the kernel. In this latest flare-up about p_trespass(), we reviewed the diffs and sure enough, the changes where accurately described in his commit message, boarding on trivial, necessary, and barely touched procfs (something like 10 lines deleted and three lines changed). This is at least the second time that some committers took a commit message from Poul-Henning Kamp and decided without reviewing the change that Poul-Henning Kamp had violated committer rules. After reviewing the evidence, it seems to us that 95% of the complaints about Poul-Henning Kamp's changes have been without merit and perhaps even politically motivated. FreeBSD Core. This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-policy. The list contains policy statements from the FreeBSD Core Team. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-policy" in the body of the message
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