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[Stewart Gordon]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:56 AM, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Or, an even simpler idea:  Since these things are difficult to define and require
>> human intervention, sort each project category by last checkin.  The most active
>> projects will be on the top, and the least active on the bottom.
> 
> Getting a different ordering every time you look at the projects list
> would be annoying.  But you could make an automatically  pruned list
> that just omits any project that hasn't had an update in 6mos or so.
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As long as that automatically pruned list isn't the default.  Otherwise, 
there would probably be lots of new projects started when it would be 
better to revive an existing project.

Speaking of which, has anybody tried asking Brad for commit permission 
on an abandoned project in order to revive it?

Stewart.