Deleting f20-gnome-3-12 copr

Bill Nottingham notting at splat.cc
Wed Jan 7 16:01:04 UTC 2015


Pete Travis (lists at petetravis.com) said: 
> On Jan 7, 2015 6:00 AM, "Richard Hughes" <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm planning to delete
> > https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rhughes/f20-gnome-3-12/ this
> > week. The original description always had "This COPR will be updated
> > until Fedora 21 has been released or until the entropy death of the
> > universe, whichever happens first." so I don't altogether feel too
> > guilty about abandoning it. Does anyone have any objections or wants
> > to volunteer to take it over before I delete the repo?
> >
> > Richard
> > --
> 
> While recognizing the massive maintenance burden of this COPR, I suspect
> the majority of objections will come from the enthusiast end user type -
> you know, the ones that are so eager to try the new thing they read about
> that they blow right past the description.  This COPR received a lot of
> publicity; fedoramagazine articles, social media, blog posts, etc.

While I'm not volunteeering to maintain this, I do ask - what is the reason
for deleting it vs. just leaving it around in a EOL state where it's not being
updated? We don't remove EOL releases, for example.

Bill


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