On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:24:46 +0100 Till Maas opensource@till.name wrote:
But I remember reports that contained similar information. Therefore some kind of script must have existed. Maybe it was related to some FTBFS reports where someone else reported that his script would have reported certain packages to be unmaintained as well.
Ah, I think you are thinking of Seth's 'potentially unmaintained packages' list? I think it checked build status and if the last builds were mass rebuilds or not, if there were FTBFS bugs on them, etc.
Yeah, that would be a nice datapoint, but I think more would be needed. Thats the kind of thing I would want a human to look over and sanity check, then ping folks, and only later orphan those packages.
I think this was more package oriented than this thread has been talking about. Instead of maintainers who are unable/unavailable/whatever, this tries to detect packages that are unloved.
kevin