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Re: Maintainer ping?
- From: Peter Rosin <peda at lysator dot liu dot se>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:44:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: Maintainer ping?
- References: <20130203175807.GA8003@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On 2013-02-03 18:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Given the problems that we seem to have with maintainers going absent
> would it make sense to send out a periodic ping every M days to all
> maintainers? Then if we didn't receive an answer within N pings the
> package could be marked orphaned automatically.
>
> The only thing to work out in the above scenario is M and N.
And what captcha to use, to prevent people from scripting away the
annoyance. :-)
Cheers,
Peter