Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:31:28 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@psinet.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: mdoc police and MAINTAINER (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ffsinfo ffsinfo.8 src/sbin/init init.8 src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8) Message-ID: <200012212331.eBLNVSv00601@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> of "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:27:09 GMT." <20001221132708.A61525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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> Chaps,
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:28:47AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes:
> > > MAINTAINER= tomsoft@FreeBSD.ORG, chm@FreeBSD.ORG
> > >
> > > Why did you not respect MAINTAINER?
> >
> > Because documentation commits (especially pure mdoc style commits like
> > those Ruslan do) are exempt.
>
> To clarify this (ironically, it's not written down anywhere), I would
> expect -doc committers to use the same level of common sense as other
> committers do when touching anything with a MAINTAINER label.
>
> Personally, that means anything from just going ahead and doing it, as
> Ruslan did, through to taking the time to contact the MAINTAINER and run
> the change past them for review.
>
> That does not mean that "All -doc committers can ignore MAINTAINER" any
> more than any other committer can ignore MAINTAINER.
>
> Inevitably this is going to lead to occasional instances where something
> gets committed over. Shit happens, people make mistakes, and we should
> be able to resolve these without jumping up and waving MAINTAINER every
> time.
>
> In the case of mass commits as Ruslan and others have done, a HEADS UP
> notice in -developers, with a suitable grace period (a week or so, IMHO)
> should be sufficient for any comments or queries to surface.
I disagree. Ruslan has done FreeBSD an honour in ironing out the
stuff he has. I consider it fairly offensive that people have the
audacity to complain !
I guess I don't appreciate some people's point of view.
> N
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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