Orphanizing the OrphanedPackages Wiki page

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 16:10 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > After sending this message, I won't keep an eye on the OrphanedPackages
> > Wiki page and on orphaned packages anymore. I will also discontinue with
> > monitoring the orphan owner in bugzilla. With the locks on owners.list
> > and CVS it makes no sense to continue with such activities.
> 
> I believe maintaining this in two places is too much manual work in the 
> long-term.
> 
> Perhaps we should have a script that reads owners.list and to 
> auto-generates a static page that displays the orphans?  This could be 
> written independently of anything else.
> 
> http://rubenkerkhof.com/review
> Something like this... except generated with links to the CVS of each 
> orphaned package.
> 
> Any volunteers to write this?  Pretty easy project.

It's not just a list of orphaned packages though. Some of the packages
have associated information about people volunteering to maintain them
for instance, or historical details.

Paul.