Re: gborg abandoned projects

Robert,

In the past I have removed "dead" projects and for those projects
that had something, usually very little, I have kept copies of the CVS
repository and any released files they had. I would think doing this
for any unclaimed projects would be best to reduce the required effort
for moving projects. We could make this list of resources available
someplace if we wanted for posterity purposes.

Chris Ryan

--- Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> wrote:

> Howdy folks,
>
> We're still moving forward on plans to shut down gborg, and things
> are
> progressing slowly but surely. At this point I need to bring up the
> list of
> abandoned projects. Some of these projects I got no response from
> when
> trying to contact them, some I got bounces, so thier project owners
> may not
> be aware of whats going on. I plan to send a copy of this list of
> projects
> to both announce and general, to give any users a chance to claim a
> project
> as one they actually use. However, I suspect even then some projects
> will
> get no takers, so we need to decide what to do with those projects.
> We have
> a couple of options as I see them:
>
> 1) Let the projects go the way of the dino's. If we have a copy of
> the server,
> we'd have the ability to retrieve the code should a need come up, but
>
> otherwise we'd be removing stuff no one seems to care about.
>
> 2) Push all the projects to pgfoundry. This would allow easy access
> to the
> code should someone want it, and also would provide some type of
> historical
> record in case someone is researching a topic within the pg sphere.
>
> Anyone have a strong preference? Also does the specifics of the
> projects in
> question matter? If so I can produce a list for everyone.
>
> --
> Robert Treat
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