On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Till Maas <opensource(a)till.name> wrote:
I use the non-responsive process or active nagging quite a lot, since
I
often stumble upon such packages (it already happend twice to youtube-dl
that the current maintainer did not have enough time). Thankfully the
start of the non-responsive process often leads to maintainers realising
that they have not enough time, so that they orphan their packages. It
seems to me that mentioning the non-responsive process is needed to get
some attention.
But do we know how often it gets used say every month, every quarter,
every 6 months? Are we talking about 1% of the devel packageset being
impacted in a six month period by the AWOL process? Again "quite a
lot" is being used in a very qualitative way. We aren't talking
about tens of people like you using it heavily are we? How much of the
orphaning activity is prompted by AWOL versus proactive
self-assessment?
-jef