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| ### The Archiving Process | ||
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| To manage repository growth and maintain quality, the opam repository has implemented a systematic archiving process for unmaintained packages. Packages that no longer meet the compiler cutoff threshold or are explicitly marked as unmaintained get moved to the [opam-repository-archive](https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository-archive). | ||
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| The process works through maintenance intent declarations using the `x-maintenance-intent` field in package metadata. When maintainers stop supporting older versions, the community is notified, and if no new maintainer steps forward, packages are archived rather than removed entirely. |
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Another way to respin this paragraph would be that maintainer intents can be expressed when submitting a package, so you dont need to be stuck with maintaining something forever. That's fairly unusual in package ecosystems. Archiving is then a sideeffect of this cool user facing feature :)
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