/attic outside of trunk gets my vote The whole point is to remove items from the normal checkout, but I'm happy to leave them in a place where people could still see and get them easily enough if they wanted. By deleting, it becomes more of a pain for people to inspect the old code (which they may actually be using a version of even if we don't support it) or create patches against it etc should they want to without actually reviving the whole lot back to trunk. Things may never be truly deleted from the repo, but 'deleting' them does make it more of a pain to ever do anything with it again.
Robbie On 1 April 2011 14:02, Robert Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 April 2011 10:30, Gordon Sim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 03/31/2011 08:08 PM, Robert Godfrey wrote: > > > >> Also, I forgot to add, should we not move the code into an "attic" or > >> something. If we're not going to support the codebase, lets be very > clear > >> about it? > >> > > > > Yes, we should also modify the svn directory structure in some way to > make > > it obvious that the code for those components is no longer being actively > > maintained. > > > > However for 0-10 my most immediate concern is simply not publishing > > obviously stale artefacts as I believe that gives a very misleading > picture > > to users. I'd like to go ahead with the vote for that aspect and then > have a > > separate debate resulting in some proposals for an attic area or > > alternatives. > > > > Anyone with thoughts or preferences on the ideal changes to svn > structure, > > please respond. > > > > > So my suggestion would probably be to have attic as a sibling to the > current > trunk > > i.e. as > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/attic > > to move the current trunk versions of the retired modules there, along with > a README explaining what the attic is > > -- Rob > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > > > > >
