On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:19:39PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > Many suggestions have come over the years that we should somehow flag > abandoned modules as such. Finally I came up with the simplest > possible idea: > > We have already the flags > > S - Support Level: > m - Mailing-list > d - Developer > u - Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.perl.modules > n - None known, try comp.lang.perl.modules > > I think we should add a flag "0" (zero) or "-" (minus), that has the > explicit meaning: abandoned, volunteers welcome to take over maintainance. > > What do you think?
Excellent, simple and a very good fit. As for the character to use, 0 can look like O, and - could imply unknown. I'd suggest "z" for zero, but that may be too 'cute', or "a" for abandoned. Tim.
