PLEASE REVIEW: MAINTAINER policy addendum to porters-handbook

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:30, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:27:41PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Perhaps "excluding major public holidays"?

Sounds good.  New diff with everyone's comments is attached.  Thanks.

Joe

> 
> Ceri
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
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