On Wed Feb 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM GMT, Andreas Tille wrote:
2.1. MIA team
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4. in case of no answer, the MIA team will make one manual attempt
to reach the person, indicating that failing to get a response on
that, the person's packages (if any) will be orphaned
I'm a big fan of packages being team maintained by default.
However, an ostensibly team-maintained package which is de-facto only
actually maintained by one developer, will languish if that developer is
MIA, and would not be caught by the above step.
So as the ratio of team-maintained packages increases, the gain achieved
by orphaning directly-maintained packages as part of the MIA process
goes down.
Has anyone got any plans to try and identify and track such packages?
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