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On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:31, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:27:41PM -0500 I heard the voice of
> Joe Marcus Clarke, and lo! it spake thus:
> >=20
> > >=20
> > > > +        <para>If the maintainer of a port does not respond to a an=
 update
> > > > +          request from a user after two weeks (excluding holidays)=
, then
> > >=20
> > > I wouldn't normally be picky, but this is a policy definition.
> >=20
> > You're absolutely right.  Do you have a suggestion on how this can be
> > clarified?  Thanks.
>=20
> How about something like "after two weeks (taking common holidays into
> account)"?

Thanks for the suggestion, but I went with Ceri's idea of "excluding
major public holiday."

Joe

--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus@FreeBSD.org
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