Re: [Gforge-admins] Pending Projects

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Marc,
>
>> How does it work now? Is it a pseudo-automated email process?
>
> No, the projects have to be manually approved. Thing is, unless we know
> the submitter, it's difficult to judge
> plausible-sounding-but-abandonware from real projects. In a lot of
> cases, a simple e-mail can resolve this; it shows (1) that the submitter
> is still paying attention, and (2) we can ask if they have code or are
> writing code or just have a "nifty idea".
>
> GBorg currently has over 100 dead projects. We want to avoid this as
> much as possible with pgFoundry. In fact, I might suggest a policy that
> any project over 6 months old with no mailing list traffic, forum
> traffic, or code, be terminated.

Sounds more then reasonable ...

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