On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 19:01:52 +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:12:46PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > > > Today I was, once again, surprised to see how many (low popcon) orphaned > > packages we have. I believe that orphanage is a burden to our community > > in the sense that not all packages are picked up by a new maintainer and > > these packages need some QA once in a while and often don't get enough > > of that (at least most packages that I touched). > > Who is this a burden for? As long as there are no RC bugs filed for the > orphaned packages, I don't see any a direct reason to remove them. > If no-one used the package, then sure, the package is really useless. > But if at least some people are using it, it has value. > off the top of my head: - it's wasting time of anyone doing QA work - it's wasting time of any user who looks for a piece of software to do $stuff and gets to eliminate all the noise from unmaintained probably-broken cruft
Cheers, Julien