On 11/12/2008, at 5:57 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
The problem with moving a project within the Attic namespace, is the
sheer amount of work involved. We have TLPs who have promoted out of a
project who have not managed to do that work and instead still have
their own site, or no site at all.
Yes, we need to keep that to a minimum. I would suggest with the first
one we do, if we can't script it we don't do it :)
* Close PMC down.
* SVN read only.
* Add banner to websites.
* Contextual email to user list once a year saying it's dead. Suggest
alternative projects.
* Kill the dev list.
* README on archives.
* Kill builds.
* JIRA: Move to Retired projects. Update description. Point url to
attic. (Make retired projects commentable?)
* Bugzilla: Stop new issues.
How does that sound? What's missing, what's wrong, what's poorly
explained?
I think moving the site as is will be ok. If we redirect deep links to
the new location then it should keep working, and the front page can
be directed to the more explanatory page.
Should remove their last releases from the main site (just
archive.apache.org)?
I can't think of anything else right now - but we might learn better
by doing if there is already a suitable candidate? IIRC there was
already at least one voluntary retirement on the cards.
Cheers,
Brett
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