svn commit: r340722 - head/lib/libbe

Mariusz Zaborski oshogbo at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 21 21:36:34 UTC 2018


On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:54:10AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:19 AM Rodney W. Grimes
> > <freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Author: 0mp (ports committer)
> > > > Date: Wed Nov 21 11:22:44 2018
> > > > New Revision: 340722
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/340722
> > > >
> > > > Log:
> > > >   libbe(3): Put each error value in separate line.
> > > >
> > > >   As requested by a TODO in the source code.
> > > >
> > > >   Reviewed by:        bcr
> > > >   Approved by:        krion (mentor, implicit), mat (mentor, implicit)
> > > >   Differential Revision:      https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18063
> > >
> > > Who with a src bit approved the commit to src?
> > >
> > 
> > I do want to clarify- bcr approved it in the review (explicitly with
> > "... hereby approved!") -- are you mainly pointing out that he failed
> > to annotate this properly in the commit, or is doc bit approval for a
> > commit to a manpage in src insufficient?
> 
> That is defanitly a bit of a grey area, from reading and re-reading
> the commit bit page it is clear that a doc committer can commit
> to src documentation, it is not clear if they can approve a commit
> by someone else to the src tree, it does say
> 	""Approved by" from a non-mentored committer
> 	 with the appropriate bit"
> 
> It probably would be fine to have said Approved by: bcr.
> 
> I still question what a out of scope commit that is
> approved by: (mentor, implicit).  I am not even sure
> what that means in this context.  Have his mentors
> said he can commit anything anyplace without them
> seeing it?  If so then release the mentor/mentee bit
> would be more appropriate?
> 
> > 
> > As an aside, happy to approve any changes to these manpages as the
> > current bectl/libbe maintainer for anyone that wants to improve them.
> > =)
> 
> That defanitly would of been a cleaner path.

C'mon guys.
Mateusz is doing a great job with documentation - THANK YOU!

I would be more outraged that we still didn't appreciate him.

Thanks,
-- 
Mariusz Zaborski
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