/** A dismissed question: closed without an answer. Recorded in questions.json
 *  next to the question itself; `answer` stays null. */
export interface QuestionDismissal {
    state?: 'dismissed';
    dismissedAt?: number;
    dismissReason?: string;
}
/** Only an open question is pending: it holds the idle watchdog and (when
 *  blocking) org_complete, and it can still be answered or dismissed. */
export declare function isOpenQuestion(q: {
    answer?: string | null;
    state?: string;
}): boolean;
/** Why a question can no longer be answered or dismissed, or null if it is open. */
export declare function closedQuestionReason(questionId: string, q: {
    answer?: string | null;
    state?: string;
}): string | null;
/** Whether the org's saved definition has a role `role`; undefined when that
 *  definition is missing or unreadable (it then says nothing about the role). */
export declare function savedOrgDefHasRole(root: string, org: string, role: string): boolean | undefined;
/** True only when the org's saved definition is readable and no longer has a
 *  role `role`. A missing or unreadable definition says nothing about the
 *  role, so it is never taken as "removed". */
export declare function roleRemovedFromOrgDef(root: string, org: string, role: string): boolean;
/** The note the asking role receives when its question is dismissed, so it
 *  stops waiting for an answer that is not coming. */
export declare function dismissalNote(question: string, reason?: string): string;
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