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Re: Blanket typo-fixing permission for *all* committers.

From: David James <james82_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-08-09 22:28:47 CEST

On 8/9/05, kfogel@collab.net <kfogel@collab.net> wrote:
> It's silly when someone who has commit access anyway has to ask for
> approval before fixing an obvious typo in a web page or a doc string.
>
> I propose we simply say all committers, including partial committers,
> may fix obvious typos and grammar problems wherever they see them. We
> can rely on the committer's judgement to determine whether or not
> something is a "obvious". It's all under version control anyway, so
> no permanent damage will result if someone makes a bad call.
>
> Any objections? If not, I'll make the appropriate adjustments to
> hacking.html and COMMITTERS.
>
> Trying to cut down on the overhead,
Great idea! I'm very much in favour of this.

Cheers,

David

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David James -- http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~james
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