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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Clarifying the steps for new committers
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The Committer's Guide has a confusing and difficult to follow set of 
steps for new committers:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/conventions.html

I propose this set of changes:
https://phabric.freebsd.org/D129

Rendered version:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/committers/conventions.html

Feedback welcome!