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DRAFT
One of the core principles of OSGeo-Live is to help new users find the best geospatial open source applications which are backed by established and robust communities.
As such, it is important for us as a community to continue to review our list of OSGeo-Live applications to ensure the projects are still valuable and are being maintained.
Strong indicators for project health are provided by OpenHub project metrics as aggregated at http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html .
For the upcoming OSGeo-Live 9.5 release, I propose that we make this metrics page obvious to find, by providing a direct link to it from the OSGeo-Live toolbar.
I propose to also review this metrics page and do something about projects which indicate a lack of community or recent activity.
This might be as simple as updating out-of-date Ohloh metrics pages. But there are some projects which appear to have lost community and as such should be retired from OSGeo-Live.
Projects which should be investigated include: