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.
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