Re: unmaintained projects

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 23:19, John Fleck wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 21:05, Luis Villa wrote:
> > Toutdoux and gnomoradio are unmaintained, AFAICT- can we (1) close them
> > for new bug entry and (2) close their old bugs with a 'sorry, these
> > projects are no longer maintained' note? Thoughts?
> > 
> 
> I don't mind closing them for new bug entry, but the pending bugs would
> be valuable is a new maintainer came in and took over the projects.
> Leaving them open has no real cost to us, does it? 

Not really, except for cluttering up everyone's notions of what is open
and not. It'd be impressive how quickly sopwith's bug nags would improve
if we could clean out stuff that's (to be honest) never going to get
picked up again.

> As an alternative, I suppose, you could bulk close them with some sort
>  of easily searchable tag identifying as such, so if a new maintainer
>  wanted to get to the them he or she could easily find all the bulk
>  closed ones.

Yeah, that's what I'd like to do; maybe add a resolution like
'UNMAINTAINED.'

Luis