Disclaimer: I'm not part of the Google Code team nor do I work at Google. All I can tell you is what I've learned in the past year or so:
1. If you search in the Issues at the support project for "delete", these particular reports appear: * https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2645 * https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1116 * https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=3446 2. By what I've seen so far, currently it's easier for the admins to check this group for people that request that a project is reopened or completely deleted. They will only implement the automatic feature if enough people star the respective issues! And if people search for related issues and star those issues, instead of creating a new issue. 3. The 30 day period is a way to give people time to really think about what they've done and to search for answers of what they should be doing instead. Sometimes it's easier to simply reset the repository(ies) and start over with the clean repository. It might not clean the status history, but in that case you can ask them to delete it. I know I've read about this here in the group forum somewhere. Other times it's easier to simply start over with a new project name. 4. Google Code was initially designed to provide a simplified way for people to create new open source projects. Something basic but still complete enough for new projects: a front page, repositories, a wiki and an issue tracker. If people wanted something more powerful, they can find it elsewhere. But over time it has gained a lot of attention from everyone, so they continue to invest time and money to improve the hosting system. But as far as I can tell, it's still a bit far from a fully working system like SourceForge, specially since the initial idea is to simply provide a jump-start for projects! This hosting system is designed for optimized performance, not an optimized interface for project leaders ;) And as the saying goes: «good is the enemy of great». 5. It's more optimized to keep adding stuff to the BigTable (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigTable), then to go around deleting and renaming stuff. This seems like a bad idea, but it's better to have an occasional recycling period, then to constantly go around deleting and moving stuff around. Hell, even our own personal machines would "profit" from this when it comes to performance! "Defragging" is very time consuming and sometimes it no longer gives any performance improvement. It would be simpler to keep adding contiguous stuff and buy a new hard-disk whenever we need more space... Instead of ranting on about this, I should have pointed out this wiki page: https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/MakingHostingBetter Anyway: SourceForge.net now uses the OpenID thingy which allows google accounts to log on to SF.net. You might want to give it some thought if moving to a more advanced platform would be the best option. If you want to keep using Google Code, then ask for re-opening your project with a "clean slate" ;) Last but not least: it might be best to open an Issue or search for one that already exists and "star it", for wanting more documentation about the deletion/renaming of a project - See https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/MakingHostingBetter#We_Want_To_Hear_From_You On Aug 23, 10:40 pm, Gilles <[email protected]> wrote: > The fate of a deleted project seems to be a recurring question. The > status for a deleted project for the first 30 days is clear: the > project is only accessible to the owner and he can revive it if > necessary. > > After 30 days, things become confusing: > > - nobody can access to the project but the name is not available (this > is stated nowhere afaik), > - it seems that at some moment the project is actually completely > deleted but there is no indication about schedule, > - we see that moderators can revive projects. Are they also able to > delete them completely and make names available? > > It would be great to have some clarification! As I want to restart > from scratch a deleted project, I am especially interested in the > possibility to delete completely a project. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
