On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Karthik wrote:
As above, there were plans to introduce a cron job into the CVS module that "disabled" cvs accounts (and an appropriate e-mail was to be sent) that hadn't witnessed any activity for X months. Any projects that were associated with disabled accounts were to be deemed abandoned. This tackles the issue more from a "target absconding maintainers" rather than "target unmaintained projects" perspective. This also keeps things uncomplicated and minimises drupal.org related code in the module.
CVS commits don't provide a good measure of a developer's commitment to a project. Developers who contribute well-written modules may not need to make CVS commits on a regular basis. I know a couple of developers who lost their ability to maintain projects because their CVS accounts were arbitrarily (or mistakenly) disabled.