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Member since Jul 21, 2017

I fully support your proposal.
I published >700 reviews for the actual 1156 visible packages.
And there are several challenges to be addressed with any new structure.

  • The reviews with stars focus on an actual individual snapshot.
  • Similar to the code or example, they age and may become invalid.
  • Ongoing maintenance by creators can't be expected
  • So a clear separation between actual and maintained packages and those just kept for historical reference could be useful.
  • The decision for maintenance must be left to the creator
    • Example:
    • If some essential function in IRIS is dropped without replacement
    • with no acceptable workaround, I'd move it to the archive
    • I just had to unpublish some packages for this reason 
  • Another category could be packages where ISC takes responsibility.

This isn't a solution, but a step in between to improve the actual situation
I wonder how many of the 1156 packages might move to the archive without maintenance

There is no voting on the numbers added

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