Abandoned packages - was Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [PEAR-QA] Removing lead maintainers

--- David Costa <gurugeek@php.net> wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Klaus Guenther wrote: > > snip > > > > > > There are, of course, situations in which this may be seen as > > especially > > negative. For example, if QA would "adopt" a package because the > > maintainer > > went missing, and the maintainer did not give permission to do > > anything. In > > that case, it would cause (at least) irritation, and we don't need it. > > Hello, > just a question, would it be helpful to have a list of "abandoned" or > not so active packages by matching the number of opened/uncommented > bugs ? > I could try to help out if necessary. Indeed, such an idea has been tossed back and forth at different times. Jokingly at some point we talked about a "Siberia" for abandoned packages, or a way for labelling as such so the users will know and make a more informed decision. I'll definitely like to see that. Such a list will also be helpful for people who are eager to contribute to PEAR but might not have a particular app/package on hand. Adopting/resurrecting an abandoned one will be "a good thing" (TM). Cheers. ===== -- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ PEAR stuff: http://pear.php.net/user/jmcastagnetto __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools