Implement/improve automated package claim checks and notifications
Following last month's meeting https://meetbot.debian.net/debian-lts/2025/debian-lts.2025-03-27-14.00.html
write an issue (in lts-extra-tasks) for implementing an automated package claim age check + associated notifications
Currently we have an automated package claim age check that looks at data/xla-needed.txt NOTEs and unclaim the package if the last NOTE is > 2 weeks old.
Multiple improvement ideas were suggested, including:
- Send personal, advance notifications about package claims expiration
- Ensure re-claimers do add a new NOTE with the updated package status
- Block self re-claims for a few days if no progress was made, to entice other contributors to step in
- Infer package activity from associated Git repo (note: doesn't necessarily free one from adding regular NOTEs)
- (discussion log is not very clear really, please re-read :))
cc @roberto