Re: extremely inactive packages

Am Sonntag, den 18.02.2007, 15:06 -0600 schrieb Gregory Beaver: > Hi all, > > I would like to propose a change to the way we do things here. There > are too many packages whose open bugs are just hanging out waiting to be > fixed. If you find a package with a few open bugs that are simple > fixes, I propose we do this: > > First, check these possibilities: > > 1) When was the last commit? Recent? > 2) When was the last comment on a bug? Recent? > 3) Has the developer been active on any of their packages recently? > > If the answer is "no" to all 3, I suggest that the package be marked as > unmaintained, and if it is marked as unmaintained, any pear developer > with commit access may fix bugs and then QA can make a release. I really like this idea because this makes it a lot more easy to apply a fix to a more or less unmaintained package without having to become a maintainer of this package. regards -- Sebastian Ebling <s.ebling@umwelt-campus.de>