PLEASE REVIEW: MAINTAINER policy addendum to porters-handbook

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 8 22:27:41 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:13, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:08:06PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Attached is a patch to the porter's handbook that spells out the
> > policies regarding maintainer timeout, AWOL maintainers, and special
> > privileges granted to portmgr@ and so at .  Can someone please review these
> > changes, and let me know if they are okay to commit?  Thanks.
> 
> Looks fine from a docbook point of view, Joe, but I think perhaps
> "holidays" could be better defined; do you mean "the maintainer is on
> holiday", or "public holidays"?  If the latter, whose?

I was referring to public holidays.  MY main point here was big holidays
like Christmas where a lot of people are generally traveling or AFK.

> 
> > +        <para>If the maintainer of a port does not respond to a an update
> > +          request from a user after two weeks (excluding holidays), then
> 
> I wouldn't normally be picky, but this is a policy definition.

You're absolutely right.  Do you have a suggestion on how this can be
clarified?  Thanks.

Joe

> 
> Ceri
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Joe Marcus Clarke
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