From owner-freebsd-policy  Wed Nov 24 13:14:56 1999
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Subject: Core policy statement 19991124
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:14:52 -0800 (PST)
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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.



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