Just wanted to thank you so much for your hard work. The documentation is 
really well written!

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at 1:29:34 PM UTC-5, Andrew Godwin wrote:
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> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> 
> wrote:
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>> I like this, and +1 on your rough outline.
>>
>> There is one missing thing here though: I think we need to consider the 
>> process/policy for removing things if they're no longer maintained. Without 
>> clear maintainership forks happen, which is bad for pretty much everyone. 
>> So I think we should have a plan in place for what happens if the shepherd 
>> can no longer tend to their flock, and nobody else steps into the role.
>>
>> I'd suggest something like this: if a project goes stale, core calls for 
>> new maintainers. If none arrive within a reasonable period of time (3 
>> months?) we deprecate and remove the package from our org.
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> That seems sensible to me; if the project is important enough to Django, 
> I'm sure people will step up to take over, and if not, dropping it is 
> probably the better option rather than letting it linger.
>
> I would be inclined to merely mark it as deprecated and not drop it from 
> e.g. the GitHub org, though, as where would we move it *to*? 
>
> Andrew 
>

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