+1 for archiving repos and documenting them. On Wednesday, August 8, 2018, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's make it formal with what we had in the repo, perhaps a new page > or section in the docs somewhere. > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 6:09 PM Jan Piotrowski <piotrow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Please note that this part of the discussion with me playing devil's > > advocate - I pretty much agree with what you are saying. > > > > Is there any way users can find out about new forks of deprecated > > repos? Fork network view on Github maybe? Then adding a link to that > > in the deprecation notice would be a nice move. > > > > Any other comments regarding a possible "Cordova Deprecation Policy" > > than what Julio already wrote? > > > > -J > > > > > > 2018-08-08 11:52 GMT+02:00 julio cesar sanchez <jcesarmob...@gmail.com>: > > > This is the deprecation policy from cordova-plugin-contacts > > > > > > Deprecation Notice > > > This plugin is being deprecated. No more work will be done on this > plugin > > > by the Cordova development community. You can continue to use this > plugin > > > and it should work as-is in the future but any more arising issues > will not > > > be fixed by the Cordova community. > > > > > > All the deprecated repos have a similar deprecation notice. > > > > > > Other than that, I don't think we have something more official. Also, I > > > don't know were/if that message was discussed. > > > > > > What I said on my previous message is my interpretation of "work", for > me > > > what I said is work, not sure if everybody agrees on that, and it's not > > > official, just my opinion. Also my opinion of Cordova Community is > > > everybody who wants to contribute, not just the committers. > > > > > > We have dozens of repos and hundreds of open PRs that we aren't able to > > > manage, so keeping the deprecated repos open for issues/PRs in case > > > somebody want to fix something will just bring frustration to those > people > > > as their PRs won't be reviewed/merged. And if we plan on continuing > > > reviewing/merging on deprecated repos, why did we deprecate them on the > > > first place? > > > > > > El mié., 8 ago. 2018 a las 11:26, Jan Piotrowski (< > piotrow...@gmail.com>) > > > escribió: > > > > > >> Great, then this seems to be Cordova's deprecation policy. Write it > > >> down, publish it, link to it from the deprecated projects so users > > >> know about it - problem solved. > > >> > > >> Just to be on the safe side: Was this previously discussed and > decided? > > >> > > >> -J > > >> > > >> 2018-08-08 10:49 GMT+02:00 julio cesar sanchez < > jcesarmob...@gmail.com>: > > >> > No, when we deprecate something it means no more work will be done > on it. > > >> > > > >> > Triaging issues, reviewing and merging other people prs and > continuing > > >> > doing releases it’s work. We aren’t supposed to do anything else > when we > > >> > deprecate. > > >> > > > >> > People can freely create and maintain a fork, but it won’t be > official > > >> and > > >> > won’t live in the Apache repo. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > El miércoles, 8 de agosto de 2018, Jan Piotrowski < > piotrow...@gmail.com> > > >> > escribió: > > >> > > > >> >> Let me play devil's advocate: > > >> >> > > >> >> Archiving means disabling everything - issues, PRs, etc. > > >> >> Don't we want to let people create PRs with bug fixes or changes > (we > > >> >> may or may not choose to merge) for other people to benefit from? > > >> >> > > >> >> -J > > >> >> > > >> >> 2018-08-08 3:40 GMT+02:00 Gearóid M <d...@gearoid.me>: > > >> >> > +1 on archiving deprecated repos, it's an easy way to make it > very > > >> clear > > >> >> that it is no longer maintained > > >> >> > > > >> >> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, at 01:37, Chris Brody wrote: > > >> >> >> +1 > > >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:32 AM julio cesar sanchez > > >> >> >> <jcesarmob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > Archived repos are read only. > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > People can still clone and/or fork them, they just can't send > PRs > > >> or > > >> >> create > > >> >> >> > new issues. > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > I'm +1 on archiving them. > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > El mar., 7 ago. 2018 a las 17:25, <raphine...@gmail.com> > escribió: > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > > I suggest archiving them all and deal with any issues as > they > > >> >> appear. After > > >> >> >> > > all, repos can be unarchived if necessary. > > >> >> >> > > > > >> >> >> > > Chris Brody <chris.br...@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 7. Aug. > > >> 2018, > > >> >> 17:16: > > >> >> >> > > > > >> >> >> > > > Continuation of discussion from > > >> >> >> > > > > > >> >> >> > > > > > >> >> >> > > > > >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/affbc74f0ff4d34bc09657c3c302e1 > > >> >> 85cc98b946d260184847fdf191@%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E > > >> >> >> > > > > > >> >> >> > > > I think it is not desired to actively support deprecated > > >> repos. I > > >> >> >> > > > think the easiest solution is to simply make those repos > > >> archived. > > >> >> >> > > > > > >> >> >> > > > But what if there are people still using the deprecated > repos > > >> who > > >> >> are > > >> >> >> > > > motivated to take them over? > > >> >> >> > > > > > >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------ > ------------------------------ > > >> >> --------- > > >> >> >> > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > >> >> >> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > >> >> >> > > > > > >> >> >> > > > > > >> >> >> > > > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > >> >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > >> >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > >> >> >> > > >> >> > > > >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > >> >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > >> >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > >> > > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org > > -- Regards, Gandhi "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others !!!"
