On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:24:46 +0100
Till Maas <opensource(a)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