Removal of old projects from fedorahosted.

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Sep 10 14:22:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 22:44 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> So it seems I'm alone here, if we have to keep everything forever, thats
> what it'll be.  I'll just have to see to it we have the resources and
> backup materials in the future when that time comes.  I have a question
> and a suggestion for people.
> 
> 1) What do we do with projects to which no owner or responsible party can
> be found?  This caused major headaches during the elvis move...  headaches
> we still have today.  What would you have us do?

I think the idea of making them read-only/owned by an "admin" type group
seems reasonable at first blush.  It doesn't get rid of all of the
problems, but it does help with a number of them

> 2) Right before we start removing projects is _not_ the time to discuss
> the policy.  When the policy is put in place... thats the time to discuss
> it.

I don't disagree at all.  I must have missed the initial discussion in
my sea of mail or I would have chimed in then :-/  

Jeremy




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