On 16 October 2014 14:41, Tennessee Leeuwenburg <tleeuwenburg@gmail.com> wrote:
I think package owners have a responsibility to be contactable, but that the time-frames should be long to allow for the fact people do go off the grid for valid reasons sometimes. I'd suggest something like 2 months is a reasonable interval to allow; if contact via email and available social media fail after 2 months, then broken packages without evidence of maintenance in the source repository should be moveable.
Inactive, abandoned and nonfunctional packages could be defined as: -- Owner uncontactable via email or social media for 2 months
The project issue tracker (if it has one) should be included here - the problem with email and social media is that they will generally lack the clear audit trail that public issue trackers automatically provide.
-- Package is not installable via pip install on 2.7 or 3.x
I'd be very wary of including technical requirements like this in the package transfer process. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia