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However, if the rules have been promoted into core rules and no replies are received for 2 weeks from the original developer, updates can be made by other developers. It is still best practice to notify the original developer that that you're making the change. The revision control comments for the update should also clearly state that the rule was updated by another developer with the reason for the update.

In the case of a problem that is considered time-sensitive, a bug with a patch with votes to commit following RTC, i.e. requiring three votes and no vetoes before committing, can be immediately applied.

(Note: this is documentation; if you want to read the historical planning docs, see RulesProjectPlan and RulesProjSandboxes.)

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