no it isnt flame bait but it is newbie bait! there is an good discussion on this very topic at the following url http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ take care. i am not a maintaner yet! someday hopefully dd crdic@yahoo.com wrote:
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:If a package has gotten very stale, and nobody has taken up maintainence, isn't that a pretty good indication that nobody is using it anyhow?Is it? Is the average Debian user both able and willing to be a maintainer, and sufficiently aware of ongoing developments that he would both know that the package is out of date, and how to go about doing something about it (in terms of the process for taking over an abandoned package)? Craig