I think you are over-reading this. If we do not have a clear list of instructions we are not helping, we are confusing our would be committers (Additional Committers email). If you do not think of them as Rules but more of sharing your "best engineering judgment" to educate the group, you know, Share the knowledge help the community, help the project....
-----Original Message----- From: Gregory Nutt [mailto:spudan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2020 9:25 AM To: dev@nuttx.apache.org Subject: Re: squashing commits or not No one gets to set any rules. No one gets to enforce any rules. Committers are free to do what they choose. That is the Apache way: It is anarchy held together by a belief in common principles and a project culture. If you can't trust people to do that job, you are working on the wrong project. I will no be held by any such rules. I will always use my best engineering judgement. And I will take my scolding when I deserve it. What you can do, is help to educate people about the pros and cons of the work in general. You have to trust that it is everyone's intention in their heart to do the best job that they can. But you will never be able to force rules to control others behavior in this environment. No one has the authority to do that.
