On Friday, January 13, 2017 09:35:51 PM Eike Hein wrote: > Quick follow-up notes: I improved the formatting a little more, > please refresh if you were reading already - now waiting for > comments, though.
I like it in general, although near the end I think I would prefer to have (c) maintainer is in control moved to (a). It's also a pretty heavy policy (in the sense of, having read it, going "whooo, have we really got to have this much bureaucracy?"), so that it'd be nice to have a light-weight, happy TL;DR version as well. Something that I'd formulate as follows: "When you (are going to) bump an external dependency, drop a note to sysadmin@ and the CI group and distributions@ as well, so that many of the consumers of your code know what's going on and can adjust their tooling, base systems or packaging to suit." (though perhaps that glosses over potential problems *too* much) [ade]
