Software maintainer status notification system
It would be helpful for projects involving many people working on many mostly unrelated projectlets such as *BSD porters if there was a way for a maintainer to leave a “away” message in a semi-public place where someone could check if they were unable to contact the maintainer of a port to see if they dropped off the net or were simply on vacation.
It does not make sense for every maintainer to tell the committers / people-in-charge every time they take a trip or go on vacation.
Perhaps some sort of system where someone could check a maintainer's email address against a list of maintainers to see if they left a reason for not answering email.
Such a list could be generated by checking the email addresses in the maintainer tag of a port.
Only a person with a email address on the maintainer list would be able to set a vacation message, and then only for himself.