Maintainer ping?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 07:44:57PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote:
>On 2013-02-03 18:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Given the problems that we seem to have with maintainers going absent
>>would it make sense to send out a periodic ping every M days to all
>>maintainers?  Then if we didn't receive an answer within N pings the
>>package could be marked orphaned automatically.
>>
>>The only thing to work out in the above scenario is M and N.
>
>And what captcha to use, to prevent people from scripting away the
>annoyance.  :-)

Hopefully anyone who does that will be a dedicated maintainer who
doesn't want to be bothered.

As a refinement, we could also add something which detects when a person
had been active in one of the cygwin lists and defers sending the ping.

cgf