The future of firestarter

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Adam Miller wrote:

> I recently picked up the firestarter package because it was orphaned
> and I know a few people who still use it. There were only a couple of
> small bugs opened against it so I figured I would hack at them as soon
> as I was able. But this morning there was a bug filed against it to
> port it to PolicyKit and I've run into two problems. 1) I know very
> little about PolicyKit other than a general overview of the purpose it
> serves and 2) I don't think it would really be worth doing all that
> work for a package that hasn't had any upstream activity in over 4
> years. So my question is this, should I orphan this package such that
> someone else who feels the efforts wouldn't be wasted may take the
> time to perform the work or should I just retire the package?
>

with no offense to the pkg itself - if it has not been maintained in that 
many years - then retire it.

I think, in general, we need more people willing to put out 
to pasture unmaintained pkgs that are in need of new 
development/maintainance.

-sv