Re: Decomissioning vaporware/obsolete/inactive GNU projects

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 11:39:13AM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>> 
>> > Your proposal sounds good to me.  After looking at our
>> > method of decommissioning, do you propose any changes in it?
>> 
>> The method looks good to me.
>> Except this point:
>> 
>> - savannah: status=orphaned; note in summary.
>> 
>> That only makes sense for packages that 1) have functional source code
>> and 2) have been decomissioned due to lack of maintenance.  IMO we
>> should not be looking for maintainers otherwise. ("orphaned" implies are
>> looking for someone to take care of them.)
>
> We could add a Savannah status like 'decommissioned' or what would fit
> it better.

I think that makes sense.