On 04/01/2011 02:03 PM, Steve Huston wrote:
Hi Rob,
On 1 April 2011 18:19, Steve Huston<[email protected]> wrote:
You have to ask yourself, "How much time and effort am I willing to
put into a component that's dead?" If it's something significant,
leave it in an attic-type thing. If not, delete it.
I'm not sure that's really the question... the idea of an
attic is that it would be frozen. The balance is really
between effort up front to move it there now, vs. potential
effort expended in trying to locate it again if it gets
brought back from the dead / if anyone is interested in looking at it.
I'm not sure that in either case we are really talking about
a sizeable effort.
Right, probably not sizeable as in days of effort. But you need to think
about responses to people who email the list with questions on it. If
the pieces are deleted, the answer is "it's gone; if you want to dredge
up the past instead of using the updated, supported stuff that works,
please justify why someone should spend a few hours getting it back.
Better yet, donate a bag of cash to ASF."
If it's in the attic (or whatever place it's named) it's going to
generate more questions because it's visible. Even if it's just "why is
the .NET stuff gone? Are you MS haters?" that will need someone to
respond to it. Or to continually explain why it's in the attic.
Delete it. Nobody's maintaining it and we have better alternatives on the
project. If someone wants to work on these areas of functionality they should be
working on the new stuff, keeping the old stuff is just confusing. If someone
has a historical interest in the old stuff they can grab a 0.8 tarball, no
effort required. If they want to track the history more closely, that's what SVN
is for. However I don't think we should spend a lot more time thinking about how
to cater to these hypothetical people of the future. One thing that's clear from
this thread is that nobody is interested in this code now.
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