[csw-maintainers] Proper way to adopt / work on packages?

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:55:02PM +0100, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> Do we have a page like [1] that shows all the packages that are either
> orphaned or managed by a retired maintainer? This way new maintainers
> like me could just have a look at that one to find some packages to take
> care of.


The diference between orphaned, and retired, is subtle.

"retired" has a soft implication of, "the maintainer is no longer active,
but might answer questions if you are nice".

"orphaned" indicates "the maintainer has dropped off the planet
as far as we are concerned"