Re: Listing sub-system maintainers?

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

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 guix-devel@gnu.org.
> 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