[csw-maintainers] Work for prospective maintainers: Weighted Buglisting. Orphaned packages?

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there's a prospective maintainer whom I would like to present with a
> list of possible packages which are up for adoption or worth working on.
>
> The weighted buglisting still seems to be online [1], any chance to have
> it integrated into the new website (include + a bit of CSS)? Further, is
> the list of orphaned packages ("no maintainer") still available
> somewhere? Wasn't able to find it just now.
>

There is a difference between completely "orphaned" and "maintainer
has retired".
The list of truly "orphaned" packages is very short: ntop and libnet


http://www.opencsw.org/maintainers/orphaned/


The list of "packages last touched by a retired maintainer" is
considerably longer.

Much, Much, longer :(

The "biggies", are

kerberos
php
samba
kde
qt
gcc4
gnome
sasl
zope
squid
xfce (not "officially" orphaned, but hasnt seen an update in 4 years)

plus a bunch of miscellaneous packages, and 120 random perl modules (pm_xxxxx)