Removing is one time destructive operation. Something may be still necessary from there.
Archiving with a redirect message seems safer solution, it will be still available to read/download but no updates, then things could be removed after careful examination if/when necessary :-) Tomek On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 5:58 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know what to do with the submodule repositories: Documentation, > configs, and arch. Should these be retained online somewhere so that those > very old releases could be built? > > Those directories were originally part of nuttx/, then moved to submodules, > then later merged back under nuttx/. This makes the git history very > confusing for that period of time. I don't know what would happen if you > tried to checkout a version from that time and tried to build it. > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 9:45 AM Abdelatif Guettouche < > abdelatif.guettou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > BTW the version of the OS we have there, is _very_ old. The description > > says: > > > > > This is an old snapshot of NuttX from when arch/, configs/, and > > Documentation/ were submodules > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 5:43 PM Abdelatif Guettouche > > <abdelatif.guettou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I can access it and deleting it is a click away (provided that Github > > > doesn't ask for every members approval) > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 5:17 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I just tried accessing github.com/nuttx and it appears that I can no > > longer > > > > see project information. I don't know what is going on with those > > > > repositories. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 9:09 AM Abdelatif Guettouche < > > > > abdelatif.guettou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > People who have admin access to that org are all committers/PPMC > > members. > > > > > If we want to take it down we can do that. > > > > > As Greg mentioned earlier, that was supposed to host GPL repos and > > the os > > > > > and apps version there are outdated. > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 16:53 Tomasz CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I have contacted GitHub support in that matter. Maybe taking > > ownership > > > > > > of that org / repo will be possible. > > > > > > Tomek > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 4:39 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The project never was at that location, https://github.com/NuttX > > . > > > > > > > Everything there is of uncertain lineage and uncertain and > > should just > > > > > be > > > > > > > removed or converted to mirrors. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Prior to moving to https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx*, > > the > > > > > > project > > > > > > > was on bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/nuttx/. The remaining > > > > > > > repositories there are the only ones that need to be retained. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 8:27 AM Tomasz CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maybe you could re-gain access Gregory manage users and put it > > in an > > > > > > > > "archived state" with a note that the project moved to Apache > > > > > > > > organization? :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That way nothing will be deleted, while note on new upstream > > will > > > > > > > > redirect users to a new place decreasing confusion. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a chance that someone still may want to use current > > > > > > > > repository, or you may want to use it in future in that case > > > > > > > > "archiving" will prevent name / ownership takeover. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regarding kconfig-frontends I am in touch with Espressif and > > Debian > > > > > > > > maintainers, also contacted initial author Yann MORIN. Maybe > > putting > > > > > > > > this package into the Apache organization would be a good idea > > if > > > > > > > > possible..? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks :-) > > > > > > > > Tomek > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 4:11 PM Gregory Nutt < > > spudan...@gmail.com> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No, https://github.com/NuttX/nuttx is just garbage and > > should be > > > > > > > > deleted. > > > > > > > > > It has nothing to do with Apache NuttX and I don't think > > anything > > > > > has > > > > > > > > been > > > > > > > > > touched there in months. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A thought was that this could be a place to keep GPL tools > > and > > > > > > > > applications > > > > > > > > > that are needed with NuttX but that are incompatible with > > the ASF > > > > > > > > project. > > > > > > > > > This is where a tool like kconfig-frontends could be > > supported, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A problem now is that many people have access to the > > repository and > > > > > > it is > > > > > > > > > not under the control of any project. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 7:53 AM Tomasz CEDRO < > > to...@cedro.info> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello world :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Another thing I found confusing a bit for a newcomer is > > the dual > > > > > > > > > > repository model: > > > > > > > > > > 1. https://github.com/NuttX/nuttx > > > > > > > > > > 2. https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is not information or redirect on 1 that development > > takes > > > > > > place > > > > > > > > on > > > > > > > > > > 2. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is 2 going to become 1 back again when incubation is > > complete? > > > > > :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
