On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:38 +0800, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dunno - would it have more than one page? > > > > I was thinking www.apache.org/attic/ which then links to the old > > locations for the docs etc. However... seeing as attic.apache.org > > exists might as well stick the page there :) > > Wouldn't we inherit information about the retired projects and need to > link their old docs and stuff up? > > Otherwise, how do you need what is in the Attic? For instance, if > Project X retire subproject Y to Attic, it is not reasonable to assume > that the documentation of Y will be hosted by Project X. Two > generations of developers later, we should assume they forgot all > about Y and not maintain Y's docs anymore.
If something is retired to the attic, it needs to be retired. That is, its docs need to move. Just as with incubation, we need labeling. If we just leave docs where they are, there is no indication whatever that anything has changed. Take Apache Jabba. A state of the art graphical interface for the Commodore 64. No developers anymore (I wonder why), so it moves to: http://attic.apache.org/jabba Of course, there are redirects/links from jabba.apache.org to the attic site. Ideally a page would have a "what is the attic" link, but I'm sure most folks could work that out by just going to http://attic.apache.org. Upayavira
