----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Transfer of Maintenance Rights
vicente.botet wrote:
From: "Jeremiah Willcock" <jewillco@osl.iu.edu>
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Stewart, Robert wrote:
Hmmm, how about the phrase, "active bugs," like the following?
That term is fine; do you want any sort of explicit definition of what bugs count as active?
I think that the tickets we are interested are the tickets that are on the hands of the maintainer. We could accept a different delay depending on the ticket severity, on whether it is a feature request, ...
I don't quite agree. If a maintainer doesn't even examine new tickets, then that's a problem, so the tickets just issued or being updated by requesters are also important.
Just consider tha th new tickets associated to a component/library are on the hands of the library maintainer.
As to whether there should be a different delay allowed based upon severity, feature request, etc., I certainly didn't want to get into that level of detail.
I understand why you want to avoid the detail. But without this level detail we are unable to state when a library is unmaintained. Or, are we?
Instead, I was looking to keep the phrasing sufficiently vague to leave wiggle room based upon community perception and maintainer response when the community complains.
I see, but I think that we need however to set some high limits. Best, Vicente