From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 21 14:29:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 14:29:20 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C05337B402; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:29:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8E7416AB69; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:59:11 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:59:11 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: Nik Clayton , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Ruslan Ermilov , Kazuo Horikawa , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Core Team 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: <20001222085911.M53393@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> <20001221132708.A61525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200012211810.eBLIABs46700@billy-club.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012211810.eBLIABs46700@billy-club.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:10:10AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 21 December 2000 at 11:10:10 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20001221132708.A61525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Nik Clayton writes: >> 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. > > Agreed. I've been updating the MAINTAINER section of the handbook and > I think that this sort of thing is exactly what needs to be added. > Thank you for expressing in two setences what I labored for two wordy > paragraphs on. Well, note that we're discussing this matter in -core, and that we haven't come to an agreement yet. It's probably too early to update policy documents. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message