Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes:
> Dear all, > > This email is inspired by recent request by org-vcard maintainer to > transfer maintenance to someone else: > https://github.com/flexibeast/org-vcard > > As a part of Org project (https://sr.ht/~bzg/org/), we currently have > https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib/: > > org-contrib: Contributed packages to Org in search for new maintainers. > > There, we do a very minimal maintenance and encourage people to take > over the containing packages. > > Should we extend the org-contrib's current idea to other Org-related > packages that are seeking a maintainer? Similar to > https://github.com/emacsorphanage > > We may temporarily use Org mailing list as a place to report bugs. > > - This will give a better chance for interested people to contribute, > and hopefully take over the work on abandoned packages. > > - We can also guarantee some (very) minimal maintenance. > > - And it will promote Org mailing list as a place to discuss Org-related > staff. > > WDYT? I think it is an excellent idea. A rename to something like org-orphanage would also be good as it makes the status of these packages much clearer and may encourage adoption of those packages people find useful.