In the past, SVN repos have just been made read-only. (The intention was to move them to http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/RETIRED/ but that never happened)
I think it would be a mistake to drop the repos. There's no guarantee that the code is available anywhere else, and it seems wrong to throw away any effort spent on it at the ASF. On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 10:25, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If they didn't graduate, then they aren't Apache projects. So as Myrle says, > "what are they doing on our servers?" For the retired podlings, our copy of > their code could be misleading, relative to where it came from, or where the > community may have newly forked it. > > Not an Infra opinion, > -g > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:12 AM Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> If we can’t name a reason for keeping the data, I’d be inclined to just >> delete. We are not data squirrels. >> >> : o), >> Myrle >> >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 10:15 AM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > Hello IPMC and other folks, >> > >> > We have a big bunch of retired podlings with git repositories on >> > git-wip-us. As we are working on retiring this service, we need to >> > address what happens with these old project repositories. >> > >> > The retired podlings we need to address are: >> > blur, cmda, concerted, corinthia, cotton, gearpump, gossip, hdt, horn, >> > htrace, iota, mrql, openaz, pirk, provisionr, quickstep, ripple, s4, >> > slider, wave >> > >> > Before February 7th, we at ASF Infra, would love if the incubator could >> > decide what happens to these repositories, either individually or as a >> > whole. >> > >> > Some suggested options are: >> > >> > 1) delete the repositories >> > 2) rename them to incubator-retired-$foo.git >> > 3) Do nothing, but put a note on github etc that they retired. >> > 4) punt it to the attic if possible (you'd have to coordinate with the >> > Attic PMC then) >> > 5) Something else?? >> > >> > Please talk among yourselves and let Infra know :) >> > >> > With regards, >> > Daniel on behalf of ASF Infra. >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
