On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:01 -0500, Brad Fanella wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:05:35AM -0600, jwbirdsong wrote: > > On 09/12/2010 07:17 AM, Xavier D. wrote: > > > > 1st-ly I'd like to apologize to the OP, the following comments are NOT > > directed just at you but more as an open mail to community. > > > > There seems to be a recent trend to request deletion of (to use OP > > phrasing) orphans, out-of-date and not updated for over a year. > > > > It seems this makes them PERFECT candidates for adoption and/or > > abandonment-adoption as opposed to deletion. The few I viewed in the > > list all seemed to have source available. > > > > Deletion criteria include (but not limited to) no sources and duplicates > > of AUR/community or other repo packages. > > > > Just my bitchin' to put in my 2 cents > > Agreed. I also feel this way towards [community]. If a project has been ended > and the source is still available, then I see no reason to remove it from > [community]. > > It's just one of those things that I never understood.
One additional criteria - if it doesn't build anymore (for ended projects it happens after a while).