What can be considered an orphaned package?
The following are considered orphaned packages:
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A package with bugs open for longer than 2
months and the developers have not commented on the bug or
made any commits to SVN during that time frame.
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A package that has no open bugs and has bug fixes committed to
SVN but does not have a release within 6 months
of the bugs being fixed.
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A package owned by somebody who is commonly known to be
inactive.
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A package denounced by its leads (i.e. The lead actually says
that he is no longer maintaining it on pear-dev)