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+Userspace
+---------
+
+-   Patches (for both trunk and minor releases) must be sent to the
+    apparmor mailing list for review.
+    -   If ACKed on the mailing list by at least 1 committer, they
+        can be committed
+        -   If no ACK in 1 week, senders (with commit rights) can
+            commit and need to follow up to the list that the commit
+            was made due to time-out.
+        -   Patches from non-committers need to be merged/committed
+            by the committer who ACKed the patch.
+    -   If patch or proposed change is NAKed. It should be discussed
+        and given due consideration, and new patches should be sent.
+        -   If there is a NAK from a core dev, and an impass is reached
+            (due perhaps to difference of opinion), then if 3 other
+            core devs will ACK the change it will be accepted, and
+            should be committed.
+
+            If this situation is ever encounter due consideration must
+            be given to the NAK and reasonable amount of effort should
+            be taken to discuss/address the issue, but a NAK is not
+            a veto and can be appealed and overriden where necessary.
+    -   Exceptions to this policy:
+        -   Changes to abstractions that are specific to a distro
+            (e.g. profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-\*) do not
+            require ACKs for representatives/maintainers of those
+            distros (e.g. jdstrand of Ubuntu).
+        -   Translations done through launchpad translations are
+            considered a patch submission, and can be merged after
+            review, without needing to be forwarded to the list
+            (unless questions arise, of course).
+
+Kernel
+------
+
+-   Trunk commits are at the discretion of committers.
+    -   Non-committers need to send patches to the mailing list
+        for review.
+        -   If ACKed on the mailing list by at least 1 committer,
+            that committer is responsible for merging the commit
+-   Stable release updates should be sent to the mailing list for
+    review but committers are not required to wait for the standard
+    1 week timeout.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Note that these policies are just minimum requirements; submitters
+and reviewers can request additional review.