On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:34 PM, dherring@tentpost.com wrote:
Hans Hübner wrote: 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.
These are two sensible suggestions. I'm going to collect the projects in question and post the list to my Blog (which will then end on Planet Lisp, too). I'll also change the mailman configuration in the way that you've suggested.
Thanks, Hans