: IMO, the perfect place for this is the new CONTRIBUTING document which I
: committed yesterday, which sits next to README at the top level of our source
: tree -- it's better to have this rule communicated by something which travels
...
: If you propose to make non-trivial changes to Lucy, especially changes
: to the public API, send a note to the Lucy developer's list describing
: your plans:
...
: I think that second paragraph suffices. We don't have to spell out negative
: consequences or draft finely graded rules.
Agreed. I wasn't thinking about consequences or rules, so much as just
advertising.
Something like adding: "All @apache committers have Lucy SVN karma by
default with the understanding that they will follow the same guidelines
as the core Lucy developers" to CONTRIBUTING.txt
-Hoss
