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I just hope they also add new features centering around depreciation of repos and the ability to add a "THIS IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED" flag or an equivalen
by elliotpage 11y ago
I just hope they also add new features centering around depreciation of repos and the ability to add a "THIS IS NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED" flag or an equivalent.
Finding a repo that appears to solve my problems only to find a mass of issues and an absent maintainer is a pretty big time sink, for both me and likely the maintainer too!
- Blahah 11y agoIt's pretty easy right now to just change the header of the README, and/or the project description to indicate deprecation. What added benefit would making it a feature provide?
- RichieAHB 11y agoIt requires the maintainer to do this. Often if the maintainer isn't maintaining the codebase then they won't be updating the readme either.
- Karunamon 11y agoWouldn't it be up to the maintainer to toggle the "no longer maintained" flag? Sometimes a project that hasn't seen commits in a long time isn't orphaned, but just doesn't need changes...
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- mattcantstop 11y agoI usually look at the "Pulse" part of the repo page. That tells me how often it has activity and if it is an active repo.
- tomjen3 11y agoThat is a really bad way to solve the issue, since smaller pieces of software may not need further development.
- hobofan 11y agoWhat's wrong with putting that in the project description ,or prepending it with a "DEPRECATED"? I mean the easily editable field in the header of every repository.