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authorMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2023-03-17 16:07:52 -0400
committerMaxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>2023-04-03 15:41:41 -0400
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doc: Add a reference to a page explaining consensus decision making.
This is to make explicit something which until now had always been implicit. * doc/contributing.texi (Commit Access): Mention that committers are expected to employ consensus decision making. Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -1727,7 +1727,12 @@ project for at least 6 months. This ensures enough interactions with
the contributor, which is essential for mentoring and assessing whether
they are ready to become a committer. Commit access should not be
thought of as a ``badge of honor'' but rather as a responsibility a
-contributor is willing to take to help the project.
+contributor is willing to take to help the project. It is expected from
+all contributors, and even more so from committers, to help build
+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}.
The following sections explain how to get commit access, how to be ready
to push commits, and the policies and community expectations for commits