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Deprecate or Revive stagnant packs

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, azure, kafka
Domain
release

Research direction

Start by reading issue 153 and its referenced comments, then review the linked repositories for the listed stagnant packs. The work needs a decision for each pack—deprecate or revive—and is complete when those decisions and their follow-up actions are recorded.

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Description

Background

Following the work performed in https://github.com/StackStorm-Exchange/ci/issues/153 some packs were identified as being so stagnant that the effort required to bring them up to a healthy state may be too much. This issue is to open a discussion as to the decision to deprecate or revive the pack.

Stagnant Packs

The below packs have been identified for review.

Dominant language
Shell
Stars
5
Forks
18
Avg merge
1m
Merged PRs (30d)
8

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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