I don't like the idea of a separate group to track orphaned packages. It seems like a lot of overhead, plus few people are likely to be aware of and care about it. I think "hijacking" packages should be encouraged if... (rough guidelines) * The license allows for it (Let the creator of the original package enforce this, if they care to.) * A package is at least one LTS release behind. * An effort was made to contact the previous maintainer(s). * The new releaser adds his name & email to the package manifest, aka rosdistro. Maybe bloom could check for a change to the maintainers or source url and display this checklist when it detects a change. --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/releasing-repositories-form-other-people/1797/8) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: