Bug#264774: Age horribly out-of-date RFPs.

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: wishlist

So this is similar to my last item, but different.  There are 1707
wishlist items in WNPP now.  Maybe 10% of those are ITP.

Some of these are very very old.

But most are fairly recent.  It seems to me that some kind of thing
should happen to those which are crazily old.

My suggestion is to leave alone any RFP from the past year.  But older
ones should be dealt with, I think:

Many are wontfix, usually because of license problems.  It seems to me
that such things should eventually get dropped from WNPP.

Some are supposedly programs which have in fact been packaged!

Some are programs whose upstream has vanished.

All of those should get closed.

But some are just good programs that nobody has packaged.  They should
be allowed to stay forever in WNPP, because there is no reason to
close them.  

This is different from the ITA/ITP situation; there is no good reason
for an indefinite ITA/ITP, where there is a plenty good reason for an
indefinite RFP.  An RFP usually contains information that is worth
having even if it stays around for years.

This means, I think, that we need a way to track >1year RFPs, beyond
the current WNPP, to aid in cleaning out the cruft.  Perhaps once a
year each >1yr RFP should get a review to make sure upstream still
exists and the program has not been packaged with the RFP accidentally
left open.

I have no idea what this would look like, beyond the above.  As
always, automated solutions are best. :)

Thomas