On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 09:50:50PM -0500, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an
> autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is
> in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm),
> and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for keeping
> these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to
> date and such.
> 
> Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either
> uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So
> far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure
> there are others in this state.
> 
Or... call it proxy-upstream, to be in line with the current proxy-maint
setup?

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