From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 14 15:27:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EBB937B718; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:27:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2F2Kr747005; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 02:20:53 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 02:20:51 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: John Baldwin Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/25783: Add a new rule to the Committer Guide Message-ID: <20010315022049.A46684@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20010314115654.B6138@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:59:52PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:59:52PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > On 14-Mar-01 Nik Clayton wrote: > > 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= =20 > >> rules in the CG were actually a list of rules that were drafted by=20 > >> -core and voted on by the committers about a year or so ago. =20 > >=20 > > 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). >=20 > Hmm, I could be wrong then. There was at least a consensus on=20 > -committers that these were the acceptable rules. Oh yeah. But consensus !=3D vote. If there had been a vote I think it would be much harder to put changes in. But the process wasn't that formal, so I think aiming for a consensus on committers should be easier. > >> I'm not sure one can just add new rules out of the blue, but then agai= n=20 > >> there is no provision for what to do with proposed changes to the rule= s. =20 > >> Nik? > >=20 > > There isn't one. I'd start with a straw poll on committers. >=20 > Sounds good to me. I can do it unless you would rather do so. :) Go for it. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqwJwAACgkQk6gHZCw343XU3gCeMH/tixB4QqIwlPwRgRxB+aqS j5cAn37Td8qvyfhiQRSZJjqT1kZw//Cb =WMd6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message