This was raised on a recent PR commit; bringing it here for discussion:

It's my understanding the members of the PMC (Tim, Suneel, etc) are also
committers and able to perform a review in a RTC scenario.

Thoughts?

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Josh Elser <josh.el...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I lean towards just needing a +1 to commit and still doing that myself.
>
> Just need to be clear however is decided.
>
>
> Ellison Anne Williams wrote:
>
>> I don't see point in having to get a +1 from another committer for fixing
>> trivial items such as merge conflicts, build breaks, etc. I also would
>> through trivial updates to the website like fixing typos, broken
>> hyperlinks, adding hyperlinks, etc.
>>
>> My interpretation of RTC is that the author can commit their own changes
>> after receiving +1 from a reviewer (another committer).
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Tim Ellison<t.p.elli...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 22/07/16 05:50, Andy LoPresto wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of the nice effects of RTC is that the community gets an
>>>> opportunity to gently enforce code convention and prevent rapid build
>>>> up of technical debt. Something else I've witnessed is that as the
>>>> community grows, non-committers feel more comfortable submitting PRs
>>>> because they've seen the same review process applied regardless of
>>>> the submitter's status.
>>>>
>>>> Apologies if I missed these points on an earlier thread.
>>>>
>>> Sure, I don't feel strongly either way -- though I would expect a
>>> committer to be able to fix trivial items like a simple merge conflict,
>>> or backout a build breaking change without always having to get a
>>> backing +1 from elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, does folks' interpretation of RTC mean that the author
>>> never commits their own changes? i.e. the reviewer always commits (as
>>> the original author)?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>

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