How do we handle more-or-less dead groups?

1. Decide what is dead - I'll lay out the limit of "no activity in X months (I'll suggest 12 as an easy cut-off point)"
2. Identify somewhere to merge posts (assuming there are some)
3. Post a notice that we will be closing the group and identify the group that will be merged into requesting that users join that group
4. Wait two weeks
5. Post a follow up comment and make the deletion

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what about "dead groups" due to inactive group managers? (or managers without vision)

example: http://groups.drupal.org/orange-county

this group should be thriving.... but its not thriving on gdo... instead it has moved off-site onto www.meetup.com and http://www.ocphp.org headed by williamestrada. I know william has approached the group manager for admin rights and was turned down. which is a shame, since he's been active in coordinating meetups, and drupal training, and networking with the LA group (and possibly San Diego too). I recently had an admin create a tab that contained recent posts (which had been missing from the group for ~8 months). I imagine that will help in this particular case.

Ultimately I think there needs to be metrics in place which to gauge when a group can be "taken over" by someone else that wants to lead it or "co-lead" it. it kind of gets to the core of what is a group, and who really has rights to run it.

edit: note, forgot the word place in last paragraph.