From: Juliana Fajardini Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:44:52 +0000 (-0300) Subject: devguide: add section about stale tickets policy X-Git-Tag: suricata-7.0.0-beta1~75 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3c25185e0b5cc363f860cbeae39dbcca1ff374ff;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata.git devguide: add section about stale tickets policy Just to set the right expectations, and to have it registered for us, too. --- diff --git a/doc/userguide/devguide/codebase/contributing/contribution-process.rst b/doc/userguide/devguide/codebase/contributing/contribution-process.rst index dcbc86557f..cac1cae2ea 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/devguide/codebase/contributing/contribution-process.rst +++ b/doc/userguide/devguide/codebase/contributing/contribution-process.rst @@ -132,6 +132,20 @@ crates) those will also be optional and disabled by default. * keeping it up to date * offering end-user support via forum and/or Discord chat +.. _stale-tickets-policy: + +Stale tickets policy +==================== + +We understand that people's availability and interested to volunteer their time +to our project may change. Therefore, to prevent tickets going stale (not worked +on), and issues going unsolved for a long time, we have a policy to unclaim +tickets if there are no contribution updates within 6 months. + +If you claim a ticket and later on find out that you won't be able to work on +it, it is also appreciated if you inform that to us in the ticket and unclaim +it, so everyone knows that work is still open and waiting to be done. + .. _what-branch-to-work-on: What branch to work on