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Policies of the Ports Management Team: Maintainers and Committers

These are the time periods that apply to maintainer and committer responses to issues brought to their attention via email.

Problem Report (PR) Timeouts

The time limit for a maintainer to respond to a PR is two weeks. After that period, if it is a minor change, any ports committer can commit the change. If it is a major change (e.g. would require a regression run), please contact portmgr first.

Since GNATS does not automatically notify maintainers of PRs, please check to see whether or not the maintainer knows about the PR before declaring a timeout. You can generally tell this from the Audit-Trail and Cc: lines in the PR.

Maintainer Reset

The time limit for a maintainer to respond to port problems (such as build errors, PRs, and needed updates) is three months. After that period, any ports committer can reset the maintainer. If you are a committer and concerned about whether you are doing the right thing, please contact portmgr.

This period may be shortened by portmgr if the email address returns with a hard bounce. In this case, it is probably desirable to reset all the maintainer's ports and change any PRs set to 'feedback' back to 'open'.

Commit Privileges

The time limit for a committer to keep commit rights within the ports tree ("commit bit") is one year. portmgr will contact the committer by email before invoking this limit.