Should we list unmaintained software on the Software page?

As per issue 17 on our github project, do you think we should list unmaintained software on our software page?

Gallery is a fine piece of software, but hasn’t been maintained in two or so years. That is a lifetime for software that is web-facing. I personally feel like we do have some responsibility, as we are essentially recommending software to people.

Please share your opinion.

I think I agree with what @patdavid suggested. If we find the software genuinely useful, we include it but put a disclaimer stating that it is not being maintained. After all, I can think of a few programs I’m rather fond of that, at one time, had stagnate maintenance records until some kind soul or souls came along to resurrect them.

Agreed with MLC. Include it, but mark it as dead.

Oh, finally a reason to consider using a poll!

  • Yes, list unmaintained software (but mark is as such)
  • No, curate the list for only current projects
  • Pat just wanted to play with a poll function

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On a serious note, I’m not 100% sure. My gut says to go ahead and include all Free Software projects and just to mark them as dead/unmaintained as needed (in fact, some case could be made to migrate truly dead projects to an archive on github for posterity).

This way it stands at least as a record of the various photo-related projects that have come (and possibly gone).

re: recommendations - What we should probably do is finally get an article off the ground that looks at some workflows and various programs that we do want to recommend to folks. I’m hoping to write something this summer (time permitting), but will gladly work with anyone else as well! :wink: