maintainer timeout for FreeBSD commiters

[Chris Rees]

On 14 July 2012 17:34, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Is automatic unassignment possible?
>>
>> Technically yes, but it's highly undesirable.
>
> Why?
>
>> You can feel free to
>> bring it up here if you think that's happened.
>
> I will, if it'll happen to me. In the mean while here's an
> incomplete list of PRs that where (auto)assigned to committers
> in June and didn't see any progress in at least 2 weeks:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168564
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168571
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168629
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168667
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168840
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168850
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168870
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168917
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/168957
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169076
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169271
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169287
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169305
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169369
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169370
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169388
> (previous one is misassigned; the submitter *is* the maintainer)
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169458

Normally a ping to the maintainer reveals the delay-- I've taken
ports/169388 because the autoassigner looked at the Synopsis which was
written wrongly.

If you want to check progress, send a followup to the PR.

>
> In some of these cases I think that work may continue behind the
> scenes, but it's hard to tell.

Usually, but people should generally reply to acknowledge the PR.

Chris