[Enhancement]: Handle unmaintained projects

[marcindulak]

Enhancement Type

New category or subcategory

Description

How projects which are no longer maintained can be handled?

This follows the discussion in #372 (comment)

One needs to be careful with removing projects, some inactive projects may be feature complete and still working without any new commits. Other projects, like many Markdown-based projects such as skills, may be not functional from the beginning despite new commits being added (possibly by repo management bots alone), since LLMs tend to fail at following instructions #275 (comment).

Expected Benefit

A smaller number of projects on the list, highlighting the actively maintained projects.

Possible Implementation

The current (and the previous) design of the page includes a visual indication of a clock, but maybe this clock could indicate the time since last commit was made into the repo. I'm not sure what the clock icon represents currently, but it's not the repo age (see for example https://github.com/stevemolitor/claude-code.el).

Additionally, projects which exceed some time period without a commit (e.g. 6 months), could be lumped to the "Unmaintained" category. This is a drastic step, but it may be necessary to only highlight useful projects on the list (see #372 (comment)).

Checklist

• I've checked that this enhancement hasn't already been suggested
• This enhancement would improve the repository for the community

[hesreallyhim]

thanks @marcindulak - i think the clock is representing time since last push - but it may have been broken for a bit - i just pushed an update which populates the Last Modified filed in the THE_RESOURCES_TABLE csv and added a column "stale" for > 90 days - it doesn't do anything besdes reporting right now, because I'm not sure what to do - like you said, some projects/commands/etc. maybe are fine going a long time without a push. i don't know if i like the idea of "unmaintained" category - it's hard to think of many "awesome" and unmaintained projects in this space.

shoot me an email if you can, i'd like to follow up on this.

[marcindulak]

Allow me to write still another comment here instead of an email. It will be your decision anyway how to handle unmaintained projects.

I think some projects will naturally become less awesome over time, especially when they are not maintained, and Claude Code evolves.

As a user seeing the list for the first time I would prefer to be warned that some projects are unmaintained.
This may be a helpful indicator for newer users, who haven't acquired yet a due diligence instinct.

Maybe the time since the last push could be made more prominent, like e.g. the icon equally larger for all pojects, or placing the icon on the right side of the project name? Also the meaning of the clock con could be made more clear: it could be the time when the project got added to the list, time since the last commit, time since the last release, or maybe other things.

[marcindulak]

Wrt the current values of the clock - it appears they are not being updated with "time since last push" yet. Is this expected, or your latest fix should be already live?

Below is the https://github.com/stevemolitor/claude-code.el, which has last commit 19 hours ago, but shows 9 months old.

More projects are affected by this type of mismatch.

[hesreallyhim]

@marcindulak yes you're right so i think it actually means the "age" of the repo, which is not a good or bad signifier in itself, maybe it's just a noisy one at the moment, especially if it isn't clear what it signifies. (If you look at the repo you shared, the first commit was about 9 months ago.) What do you reckon is most useful?

• show age of repo
• show time since last activity
• neither/both/make it clearer either way

Regarding your comment "It will be your decision anyway how to handle unmaintained projects." I would rather have some other folks to weigh in on this kind of thing, so since you are one of the few relatively "active" participants on the list, for which I'm very grateful, I value your opinion a lot and was going to inquire if you had interest in being more involved. Which is fine either way, but feel free to reach out to me if you wish to do so.

[marcindulak]

My preference would be to see the "time since the last push", since this is an approximate indicator (except for the bots) of the project manitenance state.