The Committer's Guide has a confusing and difficult to follow set of steps for new committers: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/conventions.html I propose this set of changes: https://phabric.freebsd.org/D129 Rendered version: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/committers/conventions.html Feedback welcome!