Re: OpenBLAS binary packages

[Richard L. Hamilton]

> On May 17, 2019, at 12:10, Artur Szostak <aszos...@partner.eso.org> wrote:
> 
>> If a package has no maintainers, it may languish regardless of whether 
>> tickets are filed, let alone whether ticket filing is automatic.
> 
> A brutal, but possibly effective policy approach would be to drop such ports 
> after a few weeks grace period.
> 

If it has no other packages depending on it, that could be an option, although 
I suspect the grace period should be longer than a few weeks.

But if it does have other packages depending on it, that's a problem.  Should 
the maintainers of those other packages take it on?  Or should they be dropped 
too?

Not to mention that a LOT of ports have no maintainer...which would make either 
of the above approaches have a severe impact.