Just checking the repo wouldn't work. It may still have some activity but not be maintained and vice-versa.
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Doug Burke <dburke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" <petr....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went unnoticed by >> most: >> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Niklas Hambüchen <m...@nh2.me> >>> Date: 2013/5/4 >>> ... >>> I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package maintainer a >>> quarterly question "Would you still call your project X 'maintained'?" >>> for each package they maintain; Hackage could really give us better >>> indications concerning this. >> >> >> This sounds to me like a very good idea. It could be as simple as "If you >> consider yourself to be the maintainer of package X please just hit reply >> and send." If Hackage doesn't get an answer, it'd just would display some >> red text like "This package seems to be unmaintained since D.M.Y." >> >> Best regards, >> Petr >> > > For those packages that give a repository, a query could be done > automatically to see when it was last updated. It's not the same thing as > 'being maintained', but is less annoying for those people with many packages > on hackage. > > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- Felipe. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe