On 4 October 2010 01:54, Jakob Gruber <jakob.gruber@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi TUs,
I've just created a new proposal concerning the orphaning of all packages marked 'out of date' which have not been updated (or submitted) since before January 1st, 2009. For details, see the actual proposal text.
The voting period ends on October 10th, please cast your votes!
Jakob, would it be possible for you to parse the e-mail address of the current maintainer, and for each package send an e-mail? The template could look like this: """ Subject: [AUR][$pkgname] Orphan candidate Hi Your package '$pkgname' [1] is a candidate to be orphaned, as per the out-of-date and inactivity list generated recently [2]. If you do not update '$pkgname' by the 10th of October 2010, it will be automatically orphaned. Refer to the AUR discussion [3] for more details, and participate there if you would like '$pkgname' to be exempted, subject to a valid reason. [1] $pkgurl [2] http://pastebin.com/GVPYcvLC [3] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-September/010999.htm... """ I do not quite like the last paragraph, because it holds a very big variable. Let's say half of their maintainers feel they have a "valid reason", we would then have dozens of e-mail responses to read. But of course, this is practically not the case. At least, it shouldn't be.