On Wed, 27 May 2009, Adam Miller wrote:
I recently picked up the firestarter package because it was orphaned and I know a few people who still use it. There were only a couple of small bugs opened against it so I figured I would hack at them as soon as I was able. But this morning there was a bug filed against it to port it to PolicyKit and I've run into two problems. 1) I know very little about PolicyKit other than a general overview of the purpose it serves and 2) I don't think it would really be worth doing all that work for a package that hasn't had any upstream activity in over 4 years. So my question is this, should I orphan this package such that someone else who feels the efforts wouldn't be wasted may take the time to perform the work or should I just retire the package?
with no offense to the pkg itself - if it has not been maintained in that many years - then retire it.
I think, in general, we need more people willing to put out to pasture unmaintained pkgs that are in need of new development/maintainance.
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