[WIP] Policy for removing stale packages #16975
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It's become increasingly visible that many packages are stale or not maintained. This misleads users into thinking they are using a maintained package/integration, when in reality, it might not be used by anyone or hasn't been updated in ages.
Furthermore, these packages eat up a lot of CICD runtime and other resource usage.
The aim of this PR would be to introduce a policy for moving packages into an "orphaned" branch, and removing them from the docs and main branch.
In this PR:
Todo: