I believed that it required two OMC approvals but was pointed to an earlier 
instance where only one was present and I flew with it without checking further.
My apologies for merging prematurely and I’ll back out the changes if any OMC 
member wants.

As for discussing this at the upcoming face to face, I agree wholeheartedly.


Pauli
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> On 4 Oct 2019, at 5:39 pm, Matt Caswell <m...@openssl.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/10/2019 08:15, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre wrote:
>> Dear OMC,
>> 
>> while the process of merging and committing to openssl/openssl has been 
>> formalized,
>> no similar (official) rules for pull requests by non-OMC-member seem to 
>> apply to the
>> other two repositories openssl/tools and openssl/web. Probably it's because 
>> hardly
>> anybody outside the OMC else ever raises them? Or is it the other way around?
> 
> There are clear official rules. This vote was passed by the OMC over a year 
> ago:
> 
> topic: Openssl-web and tools repositories shall be under the same review
>       policy as per the openssl repository where the reviewers are OMC members
> 
> So it needs two approvals from an OMC member. It looks like recent commits
> haven't obeyed those rules.
> 
> 
>> I would like to raise the question whether it wouldn't be beneficial for all 
>> of us,
>> if we would apply the same rules (commit access for all committers, plus the 
>> well
>> known approval rules) to all of our repos. After all, the openssl/openssl 
>> repository
>> is the most valuable of the three and I see no reason why the others would 
>> need
>> more protection. In the case of the openssl/web repository which targets the
>> official website, you might want to consider a 2OMC approval rule, but even 
>> there
>> I don't see why the usual OMC veto rule wouldn't be sufficient.
> 
> There is a lot of merit in that. Certainly for tools. I've added it to the OMC
> agenda for Nuremburg.
> 
> Matt
> 

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