This is very useful IMHO. I've already taken over one of the listed.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Simon Hobbs <simon@emspace.com.au> wrote:
I'm hoping that Dries doesn't block this user, as previously happened
with 'unmaintained' - unless an alternative is available right now. In
fact I'm waiting to hear from him before I assign a couple of modules
to it :)

It really is quite helpful and a very simple solution until something
better is available.