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(a)redhat.com> 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?
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