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See below.. > > > Orphan: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the > > > role as you write your new code]. > > > Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means > > > it has been replaced by a better system and you > > > should be using that. > > > > That seems a useful addition. +1 to add the extra info. > > I think we prefer removing unmaintained code. > Yes, but this gives us a good way to flag and track what the status of the code is, so that we can see what is clearly unmaintained, or at risk of becoming unmaintained. I really like this status option because it gives us grades of maintenance - not just maintained/unmaintained binary option. For example, the FreeBSD port of DPDK is maintained, but given how much time I as maintainer spend on it, it would fall into the "Odd Fixes" category - which gives anyone checking up on it a lot more information about its future support than just saying it's "being maintained".