On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar [2005-09-05 14:56 +0200]: > > By specifically directing efforts to exactly those packages that, > > by definition, have nobody interested in them at the moment, I think you're > > still spending time inefficiently: packages nobody is interested in tend to > > ultimately get removed anyway, for example. > Well, the fact that no DD is interested in them does not imply that > there are no users of the package, so the effort is usually not > competely wasted (as opposed to my throw-away package I used before). wnpp-alert could be a way to spot orphaned package that the applicant might be interested in working on. Also, asking the applicant to run wnpp-alert could be a nice way of raising awareness on it: I think it's an important tool, but IMO it's not that widely known. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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