From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Dec 22 1:10: 7 2000 From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 01:09:58 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F086F37B400; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBM99n508053; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:09:49 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBLNVSv00601; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:31:28 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200012212331.eBLNVSv00601@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Nik Clayton Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Greg Lehey , Ruslan Ermilov , Kazuo Horikawa , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.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) In-Reply-To: Message from Nik Clayton of "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:27:09 GMT." <20001221132708.A61525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:31:28 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Chaps, > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:28:47AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Greg Lehey 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. I disagree. Ruslan has done FreeBSD an honour in ironing out the stuff he has. I consider it fairly offensive that people have the audacity to complain ! I guess I don't appreciate some people's point of view. > 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message