On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Wouter Vanden Hove <[email protected]> wrote: > Kees Hink wrote: > >> Products.ExpandableNavigation, a product for Plone2.5 which has never seen >> a full release, can be removed from plone.org >> (http://plone.org/products/expandablenavigation). I've marked it >> "DISCONTINUED" a year ago. >> >> I can't do this myself, would someone do it for me? >> >> And after, i think it's also a good idea to remove the code from >> http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.ExpandableNavigation/? > > > I consider this *very* bad practice. > > You cannot know who is using this software. > You cannot know somebody might need to update/migrate an old Plone2.5-site > using this module in the future. > You cannot know know someone in the future might be interested to study > and/or continue development. > > It would be absolutely horrible if all packages/Products would disappear > like this just because the original developer lost interest in maintaining > it. > > Just put in a notice that you as the original developer lost interest in > maintaining this package. Do not make it impossible for someone to take > over in the future. >
I think it's reasonable to remove never-released, long-abanonded software from the "public" listing at plone.org/products, but I agree, we should not remove code from SVN. If anyone decides they want to take over the product, they can always easily recreate the plone.org listing, and developers can always easily get the code from SVN, which is likely where they got unreleased/alpha software in the first place. :Jon _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers
