Hi BigTop, There has been a lot of discussion as to what the future BigTop would look like. To my understanding, one of the drivers has been not having enough manpower to maintain all of the packaging and testing efforts for every component. Similar problems are faced by the Fedora and Debian communities.
Instead of an explicit kill or keep list, why not ask for volunteers who are willing to maintain specific components? If a component's maintainer(s) don't respond or review updates or build errors within a specific time frame, components would be put on "probation" status. If another maintainer doesn't volunteer, then the components are marked as unmaintained and dropped from the build. In the future, if someone wants to resurrect an unmaintained component, they can petition to do so and the component can be put back on "probation" for a period of time. This is the approach the Fedora community uses. This will encourage folks to take ownership of components that are important to them, provide clear guidelines for keeping vs dropping packages, and solve the keep/drop debate organically. What do you think? RJ
