On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 21:02 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Robin Norwood wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Nope, the terms of use are already pretty clear. And no one has provided > > > a compelling reason to keep these projects around, just lots of > > > suggestions on how to keep them around. Deleted is what we want, not > > > delisted or saved forever or anything like that. We're not going to > > > commit any resources to a project that choosed not to use this free > > > service. > > > > Well, because sooner or later, you'll delete a project that someone > > didn't want deleted, and they'll be ticked off. Maybe they'll open a > > ticket and convince the infra. team to restore the data from a backup, > > or maybe they'll just be ticked off and rant about how much Fedora > > sucks for deleting this thing they didn't want deleted. > > > > I'm fine with that. Its well documented. and its not like we're going to > rm -rf the thing. We'll keep it around for a while but no promises. > > > Again, I'm assuming the per-project maintenence cost is near zero (ie, > > a little bit of disk space). If not, then maybe I could see a case > > for automatically deleting old projects. > > > > Ah, thats an incorrect assumption. Is there a way to balance deactivating the greater project needs with the value of the source code as a useful historical artifact? In other words, if we reduced (for example) an active git-based project to just the .git stuff, and made it available for download only, then the cost really is just disk space, right? I wouldn't want to see Infrastructure roped into committing lots of resources to carry a ton of dead projects. If there's a significant per-project maintenance cost, even if it just adds up to something significant over hundreds of projects, the work has to be justified somehow. Is there a way to keep the source around but not induce the maintenance cost? Am I being naive about this? -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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