Finally a way to mark your Github project as abandoned

jeffkreeftmeijer.com

It is pretty easy to mark a project as abandoned. Put it in the description or the README. "This project is abandoned" or "{defunct}" or "{deprecated}" or just "{abandoned}"

This is explicitly addressed in the original article he links to,

> I could add a nasty banner to my README file telling people the project is abandoned and you shouldn’t use it or you should fix any bugs you find yourself, but that’s not what I think a README is for. I could even remove the issues page so people can’t report issues anymore, but I don’t want that either. There’s some helpful information in there.

A lot of readme's have a 'support' section where users are told how to gain support (bug tracking url, mailing list, etc). How is it 'wrong' to tell users there that the product is no longer supported? It's important information.

I can see the problem with not being able to disable the bug tracker while still allowing the bug tracking content to remain available, though.

Tell me when any project finds a new maintainer through this site, and I'll reconsider it. Until then, I see not much value in it.

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