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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:56:55 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/25783: Add a new rule to the Committer Guide
Message-ID:  <20010314115654.B6138@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103140100.f2E103n15486@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jhb@freebsd.org on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:00:03PM -0800
References:  <200103140100.f2E103n15486@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:00:03PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> Hmm, the only thing I see with this (the patch looks ok) is that the 
> rules in the CG were actually a list of rules that were drafted by 
> -core and voted on by the committers about a year or so ago.  

My mail archives disagree.  Drafted by jkh, with input and discussion on
-committers.  I can't find a record of a formal vote on these (I could
be wrong, but I'm normally pretty good about keeping these records).

> I'm not sure one can just add new rules out of the blue, but then again 
> there is no provision for what to do with proposed changes to the rules.  
> Nik?

There isn't one.  I'd start with a straw poll on committers.

> FWIW, the point you raise is important, and I would hope that it wouldn't even
> need to be explicit.  Then again, the same is true of respecting other
> committers.

Ditto.

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