On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:45:08PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote: > 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.
I agree. Although we should perhaps have a second mailing to debian-devel listing packages that have been unmaintained for a while, and are getting old enough to remove. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
