On Thursday, March 7, 2013 1:05:53 PM UTC-5, Alex Ogier wrote:
>
> I think it can't just disappear. Even if you can't find a maintainer, core 
> should put at least a little effort to make sure that an API compatible 
> third-party application exists that is compatible at least through version 
> 1.8 when "import django.contrib.comments" stops working (basically, do the 
> work ourselves to make sure that it doesn't rely on undocumented internals 
> and can be cleanly split). Then, if it's not maintained, it can fester and 
> stop being compatible with new Django versions or whatever. If it's really 
> not important enough to anyone that it can stay modern outside of core, 
> then it will die, but we should make it a trivial matter to fork and adopt 
> for whoever needs it.
>

This approach sounds a lot better than just booting it from the repo.

Regards,
Michael Manfre

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