On May 5, 2013 7:25 AM, "Petr Pudlák" <petr.mvd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> on another thread there was a suggestion which perhaps went unnoticed by most:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2.me>
>> Date: 2013/5/4
>> ...
>> I would even be happy with newhackage sending every package maintainer a
>> quarterly question "Would you still call your project X 'maintained'?"
>> for each package they maintain; Hackage could really give us better
>> indications concerning this.
>
>
> This sounds to me like a very good idea. It could be as simple as "If you consider yourself to be the maintainer of package X please just hit reply and send." If Hackage doesn't get an answer, it'd just would display some red text like "This package seems to be unmaintained since D.M.Y."
>
> Best regards,
> Petr
>

For those packages that give a repository, a query could be done automatically to see when it was last updated. It's not the same thing as 'being maintained', but is less annoying for those people with many packages on hackage.

Doug