On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:58 -0200, Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto wrote:
When a packages was marked as out-of-date should set a timeout. If the owner don't updated, the package will marked as orphan. Something like two months.
What do you think?
I don't like this idea. As developer, I get a lot of out-of-date flags for packages that aren't outdated. Some people use the flag option to report bugs. Other people see a GNOME 2.25.x package appearing on the GNOME FTP and report the stable 2.24.x version as outdated. Sometimes I'm constantly unflagging packages all the time, but sometimes I just leave it alone because I know some other user who knows it all better than me flags it again anyways (I've had the same packages flagged 4 times per day). This would mean that with this rule, half of the GNOME desktop would be orphaned halfway the beta series of the next GNOME version. Out-of-date flagging is just an indication that a package could use some attention, but when a package is flagged out-of-date for a while, it doesn't mean the developer is inactive.