Re: Re: [RFC] orphan extensions cleanup

On 12.06.2018 at 16:15, Sara Golemon wrote: > Per issue #1, I'd suggest an OWNERS file per ext/*/ dir with names and > year ranges. Continued ownership demarked by explicitly incrementing > the end year BY THE MAINTAINER. An extension is considered abandoned > if the end year is not updated by the following January. Example: > ext/hash/OWNER might contain "pollita 2005-2018" (and other entries). > 2019 rolls around, even if it's December and I haven't updated the end > year, it's still not considered abandoned until January 2020. This > leaves the second half of a year for auditing "soon to be adandoned" > exts and reach out to current "owners" and/or find potential > replacements for the following year. I'm afraid this might be misused. It's too easy to update the year number, without actually doing *any* real maintenance work (“I'll come back to that later” …). Some automated process would be nice, but manually checking the bug tracker for maintenance work (particularly wrt. security issues), and/or the commit log seems to be okay for now. -- Christoph M. Becker