Re: [External] : [ELPA] Package cleanup

[John Yates]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 6:05 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> But again, whether some package starts to result
> in problems where it didn't previously doesn't
> follow from its not having been updated for 5
> years.  Similarly, it doesn't at all follow that
> a package that's been updated a lot doesn't have
> problems, including doesn't introduce new problems
> from some recent update.
>
> Bugs and curating/testing are different from the
> question of update frequency or recentness.

Full agreement.  Same holds true for a package on github.
Lack of update is merely a vague proxy for abandoned.  And,
as you point out, abandonment does not imply non-functional.

But if there is no mechanism to, at least, identify decay then,
over time, the ratio of high quality packages to those of lesser
quality drops.  Not a great recipe for brand maintenance.