Am Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 12:11:15PM +0200 schrieb Cayetano Santos: > I’d say that when you contribute a new package, you’re more or less > expected to take care of it afterwards.
Experience shows that this is not necessarily the case. Some people contribute for a while, for instance in the first months of enthusiasm for Guix, and later leave. Or just make a fly-by contribution. Or do not have the knowledge to become upstream for abandonware (packaging something in the first place is usually easier or in any case requires different skills than correcting outdated C++ code later, for instance). But the maintenance burden stays indefinitely on the shoulders of the core team, until someone makes a removal request (which is also considerable effort: do the background check on the code status, file a removal request, potentially deal with questions, wait a month, then remove the package). So being a bit stricter than currently on package additions may save us an arbitrary amount of work later. Andreas
