2013/10/31 jonathon <toki.kant...@gmail.com>:
> On 10/30/2013 05:28 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote:
>
>> A) Despite we'd love to be able to distinguish between 'maintained' and 
>> 'umaintained' extensions there is no easy way to tell.
>
> Let's take "Extension 6318" as an example.
> http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/extension-6318
> Μaintainer: Unmaintained
> Extension ID: com.readability.ReadabilityIndices
> Release Date: 07/04/2013
> Compatiblity: 3.4
>
> Questions:
> Where is that "unmaintained" datapoint coming from?

At migration time, from OSUOSL to the actual platform, for very few
extensions authorship was missing, so you might want to read
'anonymous' if you prefer.

>
> Why are extensions that have a non-descriptive name, and no explanation
> of what they are supposed to do, publicly available?

Because someone created them and we didn't feel like erasing them. If
we want - after some testing - take a different decision we could take
a different course of action.

Roberto

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>
> On the LibreOffice extension page, when one goes to download an
> extension that hasn't been updated in the last year, there is a great
> big warning notice that it might be unmaintained. Surely something along
> those lines could be added to the download page of the AOO extension.
>
> jonathon
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