REVU - Cleanup of the "Needs Review" section

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday 01 November 2008 20:18, Caroline Ford wrote:
> 2008/11/2 Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>:
> > On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:57:06 +0100 "Siegfried Gevatter (RainCT)"
> >
> > <rainct at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>Hey,
> >
> > ...
> >
> >>I'm pondering on running a script to move all those which don't have
> >>"jaunty" in debian/copyright to the "Needs work" section, leaving a
> >>comment asking to change it to "jaunty", check the standards version
> >>and some general recommendations (or perhaps just a link to a new wiki
> >>page), so that we get ride of all those packages whose author isn't
> >>coming back or which still need work anyway.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I say do it.  I'd archive anything older than (at a guess) 4 months. 
> > it's easy enough to get them back if someone is still interested.
> >
> > Scott K
> >
> > Scott K
>
> As someone with a package in REVU which no-one has ever looked why
> would I make a new package for jaunty? My package is at least one
> release cycle old and there's no guarantee anyone would look at it
> this time round.
>

There are always more packages than we have reviewers.  Intrepid was 
particularly difficult in this regard.  The why is up to you.  

Scott K