Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: [PEAR-QA] Thought about unmaintained package (Net_IRC in this case)
| From: | Klaus Guenther | Date: | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:35:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: [PEAR-QA] Thought about unmaintained package (Net_IRC in this case) | ||
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Daniel Convissor wrote:
vvvvvv Daniel Convissor wrote:I would also suggest adding an "unmaintained" flag field... because there are some packages that are not superceded by another package but are no longer being maintained. KlausIn terms of tracking deprecation, perhaps it would be good to put a new column in the database's packages table named superceded_by that would contain the name of the new/better package. If that field contains a value, a deprecation warning is printed on the package page and a hyperlink is presented to the improved one. Your thoughts? If you agree, here's the SQL needed to implement it:I had something similar in mind, but I'd suggest we add another field like "deprecated_since", which contains the date/time when the package was marked as deprecated. ^^^^^^