Release and Commit Policies

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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.

Hi Andrew and Andrew :-),

I hope my comment about tabs vs. spaces is not understood as mere
criticism (if it sounds like this it's probably caused by my bad
English, sorry).

Personally I like that we have such proposals of commit policy - it
should help newcomers at least.

Cheers,
Pavel

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