Also, consider the larger issue that obliterating it as a project
also destroys the ASF's intellectual property. Probably not something
wise to do all willy-nilly.
-bob
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
> O'brien, Tim wrote:
> > [codec] sat around for 8 months with no activity. It wasn't being
> > displayed on the website, and it contained 3 classes that used to be
> > available in [lang] ( I think.. ). This dormant project came in handy
> > for me - I needed Soundex and Metaphone.
> >
> > My point isn't to start any confrontation, I'm just wondering if there
> > are any Apache by laws that might deal with the situation of purging
> > projects from the repository. It seems like a decision like this
> > shouldn't be subjective, as it will lead to pretty wide disagreements.
> > One man's garbage is another man's treasure....
> >
> > Is there an existing Apache by law that deals with this situation? From
> > what I see on Ted Husted's page with Common's guidelines
> > http://husted.com/about/commons/, there is nothing dealing with the
> > removal of packages that have fallen into disuse.
>
> We still keep very old projects that not only are in disuse but are in
> CVS repositories that are not even listed in the normal site webpages.
>
> Thus, I don't see why we should remove them from CVS.
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >>Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:15 AM
> >>To: Jakarta Commons Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: Re: [general] Killing projects (Was: [pattern]
> >>Proposed removal of project)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Morgan Delagrange wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>--- Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>This would then be applied to other projects, for
> >>>>example:
> >>>>
> >>>>patterns, cjan, altrmi, armi, cadastre, graph, latka/latka-webapp?
> >>>>
> >>>>Hen
> >>>
> >>>Latka's not dead. :) At least two developers have
> >>>made commits within the last two months:
> >>>
> >>> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-commons/latka/
> >>>
> >>>- Morgan
> >>
> >>My mistake. I get it reguarly confused with Cactus :) I
> >>thought it had moved out of the repository.
> >>
> >>Hen
> >>
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