On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 00:55 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> Tim:
> > > Perhaps there should be an automated culling of participants.  If
> > > you step up the plate to say you'll maintain a package, but don't,
> > > *you* get dumped from bugzilla.
> 
> Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > I was about to suggest something similar. Not necessarily dumping
> > them from BZ but removing the package's "maintained" status (or
> > whatever the terminology is). Clearly if bug reports are not being
> > addressed, the package is not being maintained in any meaningful
> > sense.
> 
> The trouble with dumping unmaintained packages is that you can remove
> packages that actually work for some people (on distros that cull
> unmaintained packages).  Ignoring faulty ones, for the moment, there's
> plenty of abandoned things that still work.  Even broken ones may work
> for some people.
> 
> I do think it's fair to remove someone who isn't actually contributing.
> There's no point in them being there if they don't do anything.

I didn't say to remove the packages, but to mark them as "unmaintained"
(assuming there is such a mechanism).

poc
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