[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: | > Maintainer: Chris Faylor | > Orphaned packages would be changed to either "Orphaned" or "Up for Grabs" | > or "MIA". | | I'd go for "Orphaned".
Yes, make it read "Orphaned" | Also, the package maintainence instructions should be updated | to state that once you are a maintainer, you are considered to | be the maintainer until you provide a new setup.hint changing | the Maintainer: field, or when a request to reach you on the | cygwin-apps list goes unanswered for a period of time (6 weeks, | like the current maintainer poll?). It would be nice if the package listing page http://cygwin.com/packages/ would read: package uploaded maintainer description ------- -------- ---------- -------------- Especially the "uoloaded" would hold YYYY-MM-DD which could be checked easily for packages that havenät touched for long time. Perhaps a script could even send periodic messages after 6 months of no activity or update to ping the situation. | Should we also have some sort of timeout policy on obsolete | packages, where once a package has been in the _obsolete | category for at least 2 years (or some other time length) it is | automatically a candidate for removal from the distro? Again a script to could watch the upload time and send t this list: Subject: NOTICE: foo-1.2.4 has been expired 2 year limit, up for grabs Jari