John Plocher wrote:
> I'd rather see the website community propose such a policy, and (if
> the website community agrees), implement it. The OGB doesn't really
> need to invent or impose this kind of policy on other people.
>
> That said, as a website community member (taking off my OGB hat), I
> propose that Jim keep on doing what he has already described. If it
> needs more formalism, then:
>
> The lifecycle policy for collectives (user groups, projects and
> communities) currently covers the creation mechanisms. It needs to be
> extended to cover additional scenarios for inactive and never got
> started collectives:
>
> For collectives that are empty and dead (that never started, never got
> "unhid", or are otherwise content-free and unused for some reasonable
> length of time), the "project setup folks" may simply garbage collect
> the mess: Turn off the forums and email lists, delete the associated
> (presumably effectively empty) mail and forum archives, delete the web
> site and repo content (again, presumably effectively blank), etc...
For Community Groups with any non-expired grants, this will have to be
coordinated with the OGB to formally disband the community and clean up
the grants as well, but I'd otherwise agree that the OGB doesn't need to
be involved in most cleanups of never-launched groups.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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