Free Software Magazine: Adopt an Orphan

“In the Debian project they refer to packages that no longer
have mantainers as orphaned. I think it’s a good definition, and
I’d extend it to free software packages that are no longer
developed.

“There are a lot of orphaned packages around, some actually
deserve it but unfortunately there are also some that are promising
or very good, and now they are almost dead. But, since we are
talking about free software, every good developer is encouraged to
pick one and try to push it a bit further…”

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