From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-03-31T18:39:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Dormant projects (was Status of AOP in Ruby)

Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> wrote:
 
> Maybe one could calculate a 'dormant' value, so that visitors easily
> can distinguish alive and kicking projects from the dead ones:
> *  no upload via scp to the homepage.
> *  no commits.
> *  no file releases
> *  no downloads
> *  no closed tracker items.

Something I suggested a package manager include is separate "last
modified" and "last certified active" fields, so that users could
distinguish between an abandoned/dormant project and one that was
simply feature complete and needed no additional modifications to
it. The "last certified active" field should be pretty trivial to
keep updated if this is indeed an active project, and will handle
the (somewhat disconcerting) case of libraries that have modified
dates several years old, but which are in reality perfectly alive
and being used.

martin