[Development] Change / clarification to Maintainer's commit privilege

[Thiago Macieira]

Hello

I'd like to offer the a clarification and request one change to the commit 
policy regarding the maintainer's privilege. See
	http://qt-project.org/wiki/Commit_Policy (point 12)
	http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2012-April/002930.html

The policy says:
12.1 Maintainer privilege: A maintainer may approve his own change to the code 
he maintains if
 - at least one review (+1) from somebody else is present, and
 - nobody else who could approve (+2) the change can be produced within 
reasonable time

I'd like a clarification that a Maintainer should not override -1 comments 
without addressing them and giving the commenter time to react within 
reasonable time.

And that reasonable time is several days, preferably over a week. (From 
experience, I sometimes only have time to drain my backlog of review requests 
during the weekend)

Finally, I'd also like to ask a change, that a Maintainer may self-approve a 
change even if there are no +1s at all, provided that there are no -1s either, 
and provided that the Maintainer post to the mailing list asking about it and 
there are still no positive reviews after reasonable time.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
     Intel Sweden AB - Registration Number: 556189-6027
     Knarrarnäsgatan 15, 164 40 Kista, Stockholm, Sweden
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