Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:27:09 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: 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 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: <20001221132708.A61525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <xzphf3ygja8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:28:47AM %2B0100 References: <200012200508.eBK58gS47238@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001220095935.E87094@sunbay.com> <200012181452.eBIEqH000902@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001219155039E.horikawa@psinet.com> <20001220085916.A87094@sunbay.com> <200012191536.eBJFamr37746@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001221121433.B52062@wantadilla.lemis.com> <xzphf3ygja8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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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. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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