Hi Rob, > On 1 April 2011 18:19, Steve Huston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You have to ask yourself, "How much time and effort am I willing to > > put into a component that's dead?" If it's something significant, > > leave it in an attic-type thing. If not, delete it. > > > > I'm not sure that's really the question... the idea of an > attic is that it would be frozen. The balance is really > between effort up front to move it there now, vs. potential > effort expended in trying to locate it again if it gets > brought back from the dead / if anyone is interested in looking at it. > > I'm not sure that in either case we are really talking about > a sizeable effort.
Right, probably not sizeable as in days of effort. But you need to think about responses to people who email the list with questions on it. If the pieces are deleted, the answer is "it's gone; if you want to dredge up the past instead of using the updated, supported stuff that works, please justify why someone should spend a few hours getting it back. Better yet, donate a bag of cash to ASF." If it's in the attic (or whatever place it's named) it's going to generate more questions because it's visible. Even if it's just "why is the .NET stuff gone? Are you MS haters?" that will need someone to respond to it. Or to continually explain why it's in the attic. -Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
