On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Matt Bruzek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) Unpromulgate the charm and keep it in the ~charmers branch in launchpad. > 2) Unpromulgate the charm and move it to another personal name space > (something like ~unmaintained). > 3 Unpromulgate the charm and delete the branch? > > There are problems with each approach and therefore I wanted to present this > to the community. > > The problem with #1 is that the ~charmers branch is our official branch and > I am not sure we want to keep unmaintained charms in there when they are no > longer maintained or the charm is no longer not recommended. This is a common fallacy. Any person's branch can be promulgated to become the recommended branch (I wrote the Lp internals for this). ~charmers is just a team that also happen to have a lot of charm reviewers.The juju-gui charms is an example of a charm that is official and not controlled by ~charmers. We can delete branches, the charm store will still have its copy. If ~charmer's branch is identical to another user's branch (possibly to original author), then I favour deletion [1] I don't like ~unmaintained because the charm will list someone as a maintainer. There are hundreds of bad charms and we cannot delete those owned by others. This is our chance to help users see the good charms by removing failed ideas. [1] charmworlld and other processes show deleted branches as an error, but this is fundamentally wrong because sources do need to be removed when they are unsafe or just not fixable. -- Curtis Hovey Canonical Cloud Development and Operations http://launchpad.net/~sinzui -- Juju mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
