Maintainer notification script (was Re: Aggressive ports removal)

[Pau Amma]

On 2020-08-30 00:50, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> [major snip]
> This is a serious issue that we’ve been dealing with for a long time.
> I’ve advocated very strongly for a script that automatically notifies
> the maintainer (+/- ports@?) when a port is marked BROKEN and/or
> DEPRECATED. Community notification is always a good thing, and it
> opens the door for objections and discussion. Nobody has written such
> a script, but I would be thrilled to help deploy such a script if
> someone writes it.

What would be needed in such a notifier? I imagine it would be called by 
the post-receive hook in the central git repository-to-be for ports. I'm 
not very familiar with python or git hooks, but perhaps 
contrib/hooks/multimail/post-receive.example could be extended or 
modified and made into (part of) a post-receive hook to:
1- check whether one or more port Makefiles were modified;
2- get from the port Makefiles in step 1 those that have a 
changed/removed/added BROKEN(_[a-zA-Z0-9_]*)?, DEPRECATED, or 
EXPIRATION_DATE;
3- email each MAINTAINER= address (for the ports coming out of step 2) 
using a suitable template.

What do others think?