Ah, so it may be tagged as "on hold" if and only if the dev says so. That's actually sensible, objection revoked.We're in no position to verify or pass judgement on individual developer's circumstances, and we're not going to play favourites.
Games are marked as abandoned after 3 months of complete radio silence from the developer. If Pandelo becomes active again, regardless of an actual game update, we'll change it back to "on hold".