I clearly dropped the ball in that sentence. Let me finish it up:
I expect that we will need to converse in this thread about what should be done next. In the EPEL meeting Kevin mentioned that I should email the maintainers of each of the 108 packages and see if they want to maintain it or remove it from EPEL-8. Then see if we can remove those from the tree cleanly without affecting packages. Some packages like python-nose should be removed anyway and if there are any other upstream dead ones those can go too.