On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:53:54PM +0000, Adam Olsen wrote: > > How about we post a list of orphaned packages in the weekly news? > > not every week! news is for _new_ stuff, not the same-old from the > previous week.
If the same packages get posted repeatedly then they need more drastic measures. Reposting them just shows that they've yet to get a maintainer, and still need one. > perhaps a monthly/biweekly post to #debian-devel, or some other > (moderated) list set up just for such automated reports. > > keeping the community updated is a nice thing, this is why so very few > of our lists have closed subscriptions. using DWN as a forum for _this_ > purpose i believe is bad. Perhaps. Certainly, DWN isn't just for developers, so it's a bit off topic there. However, posting packages that have gone unmaintained for a long time, and which we're not planning on removing completely, would get a response if it was actually used by somebody. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
