- implementation details of the Ports Collection. This is necessary
background to understand why certain policy decisions have been made.
- definitions and clarification of policies for maintainer timeouts,
"sweeping changes", and related matters. This text has been separated
out into smaller pages (policies_*) for easier reference.
Reviewed by: portmgr team
two sections of the Porter's Handbook and the Committer's Guide that
tend to get overlooked. Fix the pr-guidelines link which has been
broken since ...
policies.sgml gathers together the various policies that portmgr has
promulgated in the past to try to assure the integrity of the Ports
Collection. It is indexed more-or-less in order of the responsibilities
listed in charter.sgml.
qa.sgml explains the work that portmgr does for Quality Assurance (QA)
for the ports collection, both during and between release cycles, to
help increase the visibility of its role.
The portmgr team requests that they be allowed a courtesy review of any
proposed changes to these files.
core on 3/12/2005. The contents of this file are under core's discretion.
This replaces www/en/internal/portmgr-charter.sgml.
Inspired by prior work from: will
