> On Jul 14, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Steve Dower <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm still keen to find a way to redirect people to useful forks or 
> alternative packages that doesn't require thousands of mentions at 
> conferences for all time ala PIL.


I’m not opposed to this but we’ll want to make sure we’re careful about how we 
do it. PIL is an easy example where the maintainer is gone and there is a 
community fork of it. But I struggle to come up with very many more examples of 
this where there is something that is:

- Popular enough that enough people are tripping over it to make it worth it.
- There is a clear successor (or successors).

Off the top of my head I can only really think of PIL, and *maybe* suds. Unless 
there’s a lot of these maybe all we really need is a policy for when 
administrators can/will edit the page to direct people towards a different 
project or a way to add an admin message directing people to another project.

—
Donald Stufft



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