Release and Commit Policies

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 12:59 Thu 12 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 02:50 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ReleasePolicy
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/CommitPolicy
> > 
> > These are largely explicit documentation of our current processes,
> > but comments are welcomed.
> > 
> > As specified on the wiki, don't make changes to these documents
> > without first discussing it either or on the Discussion page.
> 
> No, this isn't right.  We can't have one developer on his own writing
> documents like these.  Please rename them to "Proposed xx policy" and
> then we can have a discussion, as a community, about what a reasonable
> set of policies might be.
> 

Frankly, I find this offensive.  I spend time and effort in trying to
document our *existing* policies (something no-one else has bothered to do)
and all I receive in return is criticism.

Of course this isn't perfect.  But we need something to start with, and
this thread has already resulted in improvements.

> Andrew.

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