To identify the pain points associated with handling the inactively maintained packages and enhance the support for these packages, we are inviting Python package maintainers like you to participate in a brief 1-minute survey comprising 6 choice questions and 1 optional question.

1.What's the maintainence status of the package?
 1.Deprecated, no more maintanence in the future.
 2.Finished, no more features but bug fixes will be provided.
 3.The package is still being maintained.
 4.Others.

2.What are the reasons for not maintaining the package?
 1.Lack of time and resources.
 2.Broken dependencies.
 3.There are better alternatives.
 4.Presence of bugs or vulnerabilities.
 5.Others.

3.Do you know any alternative solution or package?
 1.Yes.
 2.No.

4.Do you intend to announce the deprecation in the future, with the option to withdraw it if you decide to restart the package?
 1.Yes.
 2.No.
 3.Others.

5.What's the difficulty that prevents you from providing an explicit announcement?
 1.Lack of time and resources.
 2.Uncertainty about future plans.
 3.Not sure how to provide an explicit announcement.
 4.Not willing to provide an explicit announcement.
 5.Legal or licensing considerations.
 6.Others.

6.If you want to announce the deprecation, how would you like to make the announcement?
 1.Expect the package manager (e.g., PyPI) to take over the task automatically when you request.
 2.Manually publish in Homepage.
 3.Manually publish in issue tracker (e.g., Github issues) when user asks.
 4.Manually publish in source code as a warning.
 5.Others.

7.If you have any additional thoughts on the challenges related to unmaintained packages that you would like to share, or if you have any comments about the survey, please feel free to share them with us in this question.
 Answer.