On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:44:38PM +0200, Juha J?ykk? wrote: > > This doesn't sound too bad to me, _but_ a better report might be to > > set up some sort of automatic system that sends out email to all > > maintainers at 1 month intervals [or something like that]. If > > someone doesn't respond to 2 or 3, then they are marked inactive and > > someone, preferable a human, verifies that the maintainer is not > > active anymore and orphans all of his/her packages... This would > > eliminate the unmaintained problem... > > This could be nice... I might even volunteer for setting up > something like that - given the authority, of course: orphaning other > people's packages must be done responsibly... > This email that would be sent would be bug-list (or a subset > thereof), right? A simple "Are you alive?" Would be quite annoying... > Of course, a bug-list once a month would be annoying to active > developers, too. Would it be possible to exclude from getting the email > those maintainers who have uploaded a new version during the last, > say, 3 months? This, of course, would still unnecessarily burden > maintainers of packages which are more or less dead upstream and do > not have any (important) bugs... We do not want to annoy maintainers, > either... Of course, skipping maintainers of packages with no important > bugs could help, too. This would be easy to implement, too.
This might actually work :) A script that checks: * not uploaded anything in last 3 months? * not bug free? I would say any bugs here that are not tagged and less than important should be included as well. * not uploaded anything in last year? These should be traversed in that order, like a C AND statement so "bug free" packages still get a reminder at least once a year -- manytimes these might be not very used packages so not too many people complain.
