Re: What about commit policy

[Benoit Caccinolo <bcaccinolo idealx com>]

On mer, 2005-02-09 at 17:23 +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
>ons, 09,.02.2005 kl. 13.59 +0100, skrev Benoit Caccinolo:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to know if there is some policy about cvs usage. I didn't
>> find anything about this on the website. 
>> 
>Mostly this is covered in individual modules' README, README.cvs,
>HACKING or similar files. We have maintainers with very different views
>on what is allowed and what is not so making a set of policies that
>match all modules is going to be hard. This is why we have had the build
>sheriff role so we could get any breakage barring people from building
>from CVS fixed as soon as possible.

Ok I see. But if we see a CVS policy as a bunch of good pieces of advice
for hackers, it could be really usefull. Take a look at the page
http://developer.kde.org/policies/commitpolicy.html , it is clear and it
can be applied to all projects. A gnome one could be great.

Cheers
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Benoit Caccinolo bcaccinolo idealx com