On 10/03/10 16:05, Ray Rashif wrote:
On 4 October 2010 01:54, Jakob Gruber<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi TUs,
I've just created a new proposal concerning the orphaning of all packages
marked 'out of date' which have not been updated (or submitted) since before
January 1st, 2009. For details, see the actual proposal text.
The voting period ends on October 10th, please cast your votes!
Jakob, would it be possible for you to parse the e-mail address of the
current maintainer, and for each package send an e-mail? The template
could look like this:
"""
Subject: [AUR][$pkgname] Orphan candidate
Hi
Your package '$pkgname' [1] is a candidate to be orphaned, as per the
out-of-date and inactivity list generated recently [2]. If you do not
update '$pkgname' by the 10th of October 2010, it will be
automatically orphaned.
...
maybe just something like, "If you wish to continue maintaining it and
are able to do so, please re-adopt and update it or state why this
cannot be done?"
...Orphaning generally isn't a very harmful act.
And/or we could go by the one-by-one orphaning principle of giving
maintainers a couple weeks to respond to email. It's likely many of
these maintainers won't respond because they've been inactive on AUR for
a year and a half; and if they do respond, it's evidence that they're
active enough to warrant a not-so-automatic process perhaps?
(So the critical date of orphaning then should/would probably be later
than 10th October.)
-Isaac
