On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 07:44:57PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote: >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. :-)
Hopefully anyone who does that will be a dedicated maintainer who doesn't want to be bothered. As a refinement, we could also add something which detects when a person had been active in one of the cygwin lists and defers sending the ping. cgf
