Re: What to do about unmaintained ELPA packages

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Philip Kaludercic [2022-05-29 23:34:14] wrote:
> I'd like to ask, if there some point at which should one should go from
> regarding packages like these from "de facto unmaintained" to "actually
> abandoned"?  Perhaps if there was no real activity for over a year,
> despite constant contributions?  Would it make sense to call for anyone
> new to take over maintaining the package?

Of course, especially for popular packages.

> Or depending on how long the package has been unmaintained, how
> popular the package is, how much effort it would take to apply the
> changes one could modify the package in elpa.git/nongnu.git and inform
> the maintainers that if they decide to start working on the package
> again, that there are downstream changes that they should look at.

Yes, we can use `:url nil` to indicate that `elpa.git` is considered as
"the upstream".  Of course, it's better if the current upstream can be
modified to point back to us as the upstream so as to try avoiding
accidental divergence in the future.


        Stefan