begin Adam Olsen quotation: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:18:55AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >> 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.
How about listing packages that are orphaned on DWN once, when it happens, with a pointer to the full list of orphaned packages? Something like: Three packages were orphaned this week: blah, blorp and foop, bringing the total to xxx. Please see http://debian.org/wherever/the/list/lives for the full list. seems suitable for a user-oriented newsletter. -- ///////////////// | | The spark of a pin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | (require 'gnu) | dropping, falling feather-like. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | | There is too much noise.
