On 24 June 2015 at 19:05, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Edited out private stuff and moved to ComDev list since we are now making > decisions about Apache Extras > > To your options below: > > We've always said Apache will provide no management of this other than to > make it available. To this end I propose we do b) (only the projects that > are original to Apache Extras), which includes projects with no content. > > In terms of the name clash is it possible to provide a list of the 39 > affected projects? If so then we can prune any that are empty from that > shorter list and attempt to notify the owners of the others. Failing any > response asking us to do otherwise I suggest we add an "ax-" prefix to > those project names (I am assuming this is just the project name in URLs > and similar). > > One other thing that will need to be done once migration is complete is an > update of DNS. http://apache-extras.com currently redirects to > https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/hosting/ > > Finally we'll need to read over the FAQ to update appropriately (I can do > that) - http://community.apache.org/apache-extras/faq.html > After having read the mail from David (and still a bit chocked of the wilderness) I too recommend b) We should consider sending an email to all the other projects, so they cannot say they were not informed (if such a mail can be generated). rgds jan i. > Ross > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:ke4...@apache.org] > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 9:09 AM > To: Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) > Cc: Jim Jagielski > Subject: Re: Apache Extras, Google Code and Sourceforge > > So dropping the SF folks again. > > Some updates on what we've found. > In total, there are around 350 projects in the A-E directory on google > code. > > Of those 350, 161 are mirrors of content from elsewhere. Some of them are > even mirrors of other projects within Apache Extras, which is just > bewildering. > > That leaves us with 189 projects that are original with us. In doing some > spot checking, we've discovered that many of those contain zero content, or > perhaps only a single commit, with no material code. > Daniel believes that perhaps as many as 1/2 of the original projects > contain nothing meaningful. > > In short, migrating all 350 doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, and I'd > argue makes it more difficult to find anything of value. > > We did do checking on the ~189 projects that are original to us, 150 of > those we could migrate straight away (subject to the above > comments) however, 39 have name conflicts at SourceForge, so we would > need to rename them. > > That leaves us with a few questions: > Does ComDev want us to migrate: > a) all 350 > b) only the projects that are original at Apache Extras > c) only the projects at Apache Extras that are original and actually have > content - and if c) - please provide a list. > > What would ComDev like to rename the projects where naming collisions are > in place? > > --David >
