There have not been many replies to your message, so I will quickly give my opinion. The idea looks good to me.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:49:30PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > They have permission to check patches into the > repository without obtaining approval first. > > - The Write After Approval Maintainers. > > These are developers who have write access to the Guix source tree. > They can check in their own changes once a developer with the > appropriate authority has approved the changes; they can also apply > the Obvious Fix Rule (below). > > Maintainers should always post non-trivial patches to [email protected]. > Trivial patches include fixing typos, fixing obvious mistakes, etc. I think we should be less contradictory, and give more freedom to the maintainers. So I would state that maintainers are allowed to commit non-controversial patches (which in fact they already do...). Andreas
