svn commit: r402813 - head/misc/astrolog

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 2 22:04:51 UTC 2015



+--On 2 décembre 2015 10:09:37 -0700 Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org>
wrote:
|> On 2 Dec, 2015, at 5:34, Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
|> 
|> That does not matter, if there's no answer, three consecutive timeouts
|> gives a reset of the maintainer.
| 
| This is very interesting. I was not aware of this. Is this written
| somewhere? Does it apply to ports owned by FreeBSD developers as well? I
| have some ports that I stopped using because doing the timeout game for
| every change became too painful.

Yes, it's always been there :

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.html

"If the maintainer does not respond within three months, or if there have
been three consecutive timeouts, then that maintainer is considered absent
without leave, and can be replaced as the maintainer of the particular port
in question."



-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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