Release and Commit Policies

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/12/2011 01:42 PM, 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.

There may well be considerable merits to your proposal, but it is simply
a proposal, and you should mark it as such.  Documents such as this are
crucial to the success of a project, must be developed with a process of
consensus building before posting to the Wiki as group policy.

Andrew.