Unkep Charms Spec

[Charles Butler]

Greetings Charmers, Juju Aficionados, and everyone in between.

As some of you may know we've been performing an audit of the Charm Store.
In doing so we've encountered some charms that we would consider to be
"unkept" - the project maintainer has expressed that they will no longer be
maintaining their charm, and there has been little to no community activity
against the charm project on launchpad.  This has prompted an internal
discussion in the eco team about what to do with these charms and what the
process/policy should be when handling these situations.

I've started a Google Doc to cover a few of the topics to keep in mind
while addressing unkept charms during the audit, and a very basic workflow
to address these items. We don't want to unpromulgate *any* charms from the
store - as it directly hinders our efforts to continue growing the charm
store. It's been stated that "UnPromulgation should be a burden, and only
considered after every last option has been exhausted."

With that being said, I want to push this topic out into the mailing list
and get other opinions on the topic, and draft up a spec that we can agree
on how to identify, and when action is required on a charm that appears to
be fully abandoned and is of poor quality.

I look forward to the responses, insights, and nailing a solid process spec.

Charles

 Unkept Charm Workflow<https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1k8IBaLmOTpgOJQHv54BAnRfQLiC4hQ35lAm_3prlHwA/edit?usp=drive_web>
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