Adoption Agency for Abandoned Repos (AAAR)
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Claims a practical fix for abandoned GitHub repos: generate an adoption badge via a small Rails app that uses Dragonfly to render images, note a real repo with 63 issues open and nine months of inactivity, and catalog CI hints like Travis and Code Climate. Argues this undue pressure on maintainers can be eased by an still maintained registry and by people filing pull requests to adopt useful projects; prototype code exists on GitHub though it’s not fully functional yet.
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