Index: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml =================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml @@ -4074,12 +4074,12 @@ for review and approval before being committed. If the maintainer does not respond to an update request after two weeks (excluding major public holidays), then that is considered a - maintainer timeout, and the update may be made without explicit + maintainer timeout, and the update can be made without explicit maintainer approval. If the maintainer does not respond within three months, or if there have been three consecutive timeouts, then that maintainer is considered absent without - leave, and can be replaced as the maintainer of the particular - port in question. Exceptions to this are anything maintained by + leave, and all of their ports can be assigned back to the pool. + Exceptions to this are anything maintained by the &a.portmgr;, or the &a.security-officer;. No unauthorized commits may ever be made to ports maintained by those groups.