Changeset 98898

Timestamp:

Oct 20, 2012, 12:09:20 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

jmr@…

Message:

guide: enhancements to port abandoned procedure

File:

• trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/project.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/project.xml

@@ -457 +457 @@
       <title>Port Abandonment</title>
 
-      <para>A port may be considered abandoned if a bug has not been
-      acknowledged for more than three weeks after a ticket is filed. If this
-      time period has passed and you wish to initiate the Port Abandonment
+      <para>A port may be considered abandoned if any of the following apply:</para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>A bug has not been acknowledged for more than three weeks
+            after a ticket is filed.</listitem>
+        <listitem>All tickets filed against the port have been resolved
+            with no input from the maintainer, after the 72-hour timeout,
+            for a significant period of time (at least three weeks). This
+            needs to involve a reasonable number of tickets; one timeout
+            doesn't make a port abandoned.</listitem>
+        <listitem>The listed maintainer address bounces, and no alternate way
+            of contacting the maintainer is known.</listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      <para>If you wish to initiate the Port Abandonment
       protocol and volunteer as the new maintainer:</para>
 
@@ -469 +479 @@
 
         <listitem>
-          <para>Refer to the original unacknowledged ticket in the Port
+          <para>Refer to the original unacknowledged ticket(s) (if any) in the Port
           Abandoned ticket.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -480 +490 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>The Port Abandoned ticket may be closed when the new
-          maintainer is assigned, and the original ticket with the updates may
-          be resolved when the updates attached to the original ticket are
-          committed.</para>
+          maintainer is assigned, and the original ticket(s) with the updates may
+          be resolved as usual. The Port Abandoned ticket should stay open for the
+          usual 72-hour timeout period, to give the maintainer one last chance
+          to indicate that they have not actually abandoned the port.</para>
         </listitem>
       </orderedlist>