James Carlson wrote: > Jim Grisanzio writes: > >> So, that`s how I am addressing John`s question (which was a reasonable >> one). We don`t lose any history when xyz community opened in 2005 and >> remains empty today with spam living on its lists and all the project >> leads sitting on the beach. It`s those extreme cases like that I`d like >> to clean up. >> > > Two points: > > - You really need to have this discussion out in the communities > where it'll have some effect. Engage that thread and see if you > can quiet the concerns about deleting old junk. The OGB echo > chamber doesn't count, nor do I. ;-} >
Ok, happy to. It`s almost midnight here at the moment and I have some meetings later tonight to prep for, but I subscribed to the list and will review the archives and chime in tomorrow. > - Even in those extreme cases of long-dead projects, the technical > areas are different. We've got unchanged documents from two > decades ago that are still quite relevant and useful for people > trying to understand how old parts of the code still work. When a > project goes dormant, there needs to be some way to (a) make sure > that newbies don't trip on it and (b) the important information > [even if it grows somewhat stale over time] is preserved > somewhere. > > Yep. Agree. > On that second point, it seems like the community consensus for (a) is > that we should just paste a big "this is dead now" sticker on the > front and leave everything alone rather than deleting anything, and, > assuming that isn't possible, then for (b) there should be some sort > of dead project archive where these can be moved rather than deleting > them. > Ok, seems reasonable. Jim -- opensolaris.org transition: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/web/
