Douglas E. Warner wrote: >On Monday 11 June 2007, David Boswell wrote: > > >>The current system isn't ideal and it does lead to some active projects >>being taken off the active projects list. For now, the best way to >>avoid this is to make a small change to one of your project's web pages >>every so often. If anyone has thoughts about a better way to sort >>projects by activity, feel free to add your comments to this bug: >> >>http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13381 >> >> > >I'm thinking we may want to watch Mailman list activity and possibly blog >updates in the future to determine a project's activity level. > >Although 6 months with no CVS activity would be a bit suspect. Even if you >don't release more often, I would think other source files for the project >would be updated unless you don't use this service provided by Mozdev - if >you don't use Mozdev's service we would love to know why. > >I've updated bug 13381 with my ideas as well. > > > It sure seems like an email to the project owner inquiring as to the status after a period in inactivity would be the best approach. Couple that with a script to read the subject line(just to automate things) of the returned mails would give you a status update that comes from the developer and you would know to some degree of certainty of the owners intentions.
Jim >-Doug > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Project_owners mailing list >[email protected] >http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > > _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
