maintainer timeout for FreeBSD commiters

Bryan Drewery bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 25 11:10:20 UTC 2013


On 3/25/2013 5:19 AM, Vitaly Magerya wrote:
> On 2012-07-14 18:27, Chris Rees wrote:
>> On 14 July 2012 16:24, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> One problem (at least how it appears to me) is that when a PR gets
>>> automatically assigned to a maintainer who is also a committer, it is
>>> not automatically unassigned if the person is missing for a few
>>> months, and other committers ignore the PR because it is already
>>> assigned.
>>>
>>> This only happened once to me, but it took 6 months for another
>>> committer to notice it. And that was pretty fast, comparing to, say
>>> ports/154456 [1], which is open since 2011-02.
>>>
>>> Is automatic unassignment possible?
>>
>> Technically yes, but it's highly undesirable.  You can feel free to
>> bring it up here if you think that's happened.
> 
> Hi, everyone. Two of my PRs, ports/175223 [1] and ports/176701 [2], have
> been automatically assigned to committers, and both have reached
> maintainer timeout a while ago. Could someone unassign them, so other
> committers could take a look?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> (I still think this should be done automatically. I would prefer not to
> bother everyone at ports@ for such things).
> 
> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/175223
> [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/176701

I've reset these PR to the pool so anyone can grab them now.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery
bdrewery at freenode/EFNet

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