Hans Hübner wrote:
what do we want to do with abandoned projects? By abandoned, I mean projects where the owner has become unreachable at the email address that he has provided or configured in their .forward file?
Several users of common-lisp.net are no longer reachable by email, and mailman bounces moderation reminder emails back to us, which does not make a whole lot of sense.
I tend to think that deleting (archiving) such project mailing lists would be best. If anyone is interested, they can always get in touch with us.
How about advertising projects in need of a maintainer. People may not realize they are unreachable, people may not know something is unmaintained, ...
IMO, shutting down the mailing lists should be a final step before mothballing a project and relegating it to a single archive tarball. It would seem reasonable to change the config for unmaintained lists to auto-reject moderation requests, with a message mentioning the project is currently unmaintained and a pointer on how to change that.
- Daniel