Bug 206677

Summary:	please fix 17. The FreeBSD Committers' Big List of Rules # 5
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	John Marino <marino>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	FreeBSD Core Team <core>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	bofh, emaste, lwhsu, matthew
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description John Marino freebsd_committer

2016-01-27 14:56:29 UTC

"Any disputed change must be backed out pending resolution of the dispute if requested by a maintainer".

This is unacceptably ambiguous.  For ports alone, there are hundreds of maintainers (potentially 25,000+ maintainers).

It cannot be that *any* maintainer can force any commit to be backed out.  There has to be some ownership or connection or affect by the commit.  Please update the wording to reflect to the real intention (I am assuming what is literally written is not the desired rule)

Comment 1 John Marino freebsd_committer

2016-03-23 11:08:42 UTC

how about changing it to this?

"Any disputed change must be backed out pending resolution of the dispute if requested by someone who maintains code demonstrably affected by the change." ?

Comment 2 Matthew Seaman freebsd_committer

2017-12-23 20:06:07 UTC

Thank you for raising this issue.

Core generally prefers for people to send e-mail to core@FreeBSD.org rather than having a discussion through the comments on a bugzilla ticket.  Let's take it to e-mail.

Comment 3 Matthew Seaman freebsd_committer

2017-12-23 20:41:45 UTC

I have only just noticed this is nearly two years old...