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> Maybe they could send a heartbeat to the maintainer and simply show the project as dead as soon as there is no response? If I could not automate response to
by _jal 7y ago
> Maybe they could send a heartbeat to the maintainer and simply show the project as dead as soon as there is no response?
If I could not automate response to that, I'd ignore it.
My employer gets to make bullshit intrusions on my time like that, no way will I waste my life on make-work from Github.
- mcv 7y agoJust fishing for a response wouldn't be very meaningful anyway. A far better metric would be the time it takes for a maintainer to respond to pull requests and other issues.
- zubspace 7y ago> My employer gets to make bullshit intrusions on my time like that, no way will I waste my life on make-work from Github. You are not willing to give Github the information, if a project ,which you uploaded, is still active? But, will you give that information to users asking for details? Which way is more annoying to you and the users? What I want to say is, that Github will turn into a huge graveyard in the years to come, with projects long forgotten still having a landing page like it's the best thing ever. Do you want every visitor to first contact the maintainer if the thing is still alive? Isn't that a huge waste of time? In my opinion, Github will have to clean up the mess left behind by unmaintained projects at some point. The sooner they start, the easier it will be.