From: Trans Date: 2007-05-23T23:47:14+09:00 Subject: Re: rubyforge etiquette for dead projects On May 21, 9:12 pm, Tom Copeland wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 04:55 +0900, Nasir Khan wrote: > > Apologies if this is not the right forum for this, but this surely has > > the right audience. > > > I have been using a few projects on rubyforge / sourceforge (ruby > > projects) which are now unfortunately dead (no SVN activity for more > > than a year, no forum no tracker nothing). > > I have been been monkey patching some of them in my local repository > > and my attempts at contacting the project owners has failed. > > They have apparently lost interest and moved on. > > > - I could continue to use them and monkey patch them as I go along > > > - I could abandon them and use something else (with some pain) > > > - I am willing to adopt at least one and maintain it, fixing bugs and > > enhancing. > > > I wonder if the last one is even an option, and if yes then how. > > Sorry to reply a few days late, but anyhow, what Gregory Brown said was > right on, and there are a couple more details in this FAQ item: > > http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/5/460/faq.html#abandoned Still. It would seem like a good idea to have a policy of trying to get up with a project contact, say after 3 years of inactivity, and see what they say about the status of the project, maybe they will want to classify the project as "Up For Adoption". T. P.S. If you're a C coder looking for a project to help, libxml-ruby is a valuable project that could use the help.