On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:01 -0500, Brad Fanella wrote:

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:05:35AM -0600, jwbirdsong wrote:

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On 09/12/2010 07:17 AM, Xavier D. wrote:

1st-ly I'd like to apologize to the OP, the following comments are NOT directed just at you but more as an open mail to community.

There seems to be a recent trend to request deletion of (to use OP phrasing) orphans, out-of-date and not updated for over a year.

It seems this makes them PERFECT candidates for adoption and/or abandonment-adoption as opposed to deletion. The few I viewed in the list all seemed to have source available.

Deletion criteria include (but not limited to) no sources and duplicates of AUR/community or other repo packages.

Just my bitchin' to put in my 2 cents

Agreed. I also feel this way towards [community]. If a project has been ended and the source is still available, then I see no reason to remove it from [community].

It's just one of those things that I never understood.

One additional criteria - if it doesn't build anymore (for ended projects it happens after a while).

Ok, forget about my request, I'll try to adopt them when I have free time On 09/12/2010 06:31 PM, Brad Fanella wrote:

On Sep 12, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:01 -0500, Brad Fanella wrote:

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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:05:35AM -0600, jwbirdsong wrote:

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On 09/12/2010 07:17 AM, Xavier D. wrote:

1st-ly I'd like to apologize to the OP, the following comments are NOT directed just at you but more as an open mail to community.

There seems to be a recent trend to request deletion of (to use OP phrasing) orphans, out-of-date and not updated for over a year.

It seems this makes them PERFECT candidates for adoption and/or abandonment-adoption as opposed to deletion. The few I viewed in the list all seemed to have source available.

Deletion criteria include (but not limited to) no sources and duplicates of AUR/community or other repo packages.

Just my bitchin' to put in my 2 cents

Agreed. I also feel this way towards [community]. If a project has been ended and the source is still available, then I see no reason to remove it from [community].

It's just one of those things that I never understood.

One additional criteria - if it doesn't build anymore (for ended projects it happens after a while).

Oh, I thought that was a given. ;-)