[PATCH] doc: Mention the responsibilities that blocking comes with.

[PATCH] doc: Mention the responsibilities that blocking comes with.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello!

This is a heads-up regarding a modification to or contributing
guidelines I am considering to make:

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> * doc/contributing.texi (Commit Access): Mention that blocking comes with
> extra responsibilities.
>
> Change-Id: I27cafcb351f68057b7882198e72e9bf66ccc1262
> ---
>  doc/contributing.texi | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
> index 864190b119..082a288704 100644
> --- a/doc/contributing.texi
> +++ b/doc/contributing.texi
> @@ -2030,7 +2030,11 @@ Commit Access
>  consensus and make decisions based on consensus.  To learn what
>  consensus decision making means and understand its finer details, you
>  are encouraged to read
> -@url{https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/consensus}.
> +@url{https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/consensus}.  The project uses the
> +@samp{Requiring people who block to help find solutions} block variant,
> +which means a participant wishing to block a proposal bears a
> +special responsibility for finding alternatives and proposing ideas/code
> +to resolve the deadlock.
>  
>  The following sections explain how to get commit access, how to be ready
>  to push commits, and the policies and community expectations for commits

I'll leave it open for 2 weeks to let some time for people to voice any
opinions.  If you have something to say about it, now is a good time!

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim