Re: Decomissioning vaporware/obsolete/inactive GNU projects

[John Darrington]

41;344;0cOn Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:29:30PM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> 
> >> > And we already have a draft list of candidates for decommisionable 
> >> > projects:
> >> >
> >> > gleem
> >> > thales
> >> > pyconfigure
> >> > pdf
> >> > gcide
> >> > gneuralnetwork
> >> > dionysus
> >> > edma
> >> > phantom_home
> >> 
> >> `pdf' can be decomissioned right now.
> >> 
> >> As for the others, I guess we tried to contact the maintainers without
> >> success?
> >
> > All of those are without a maintainer at the moment.
> 
> Then, if RMS agrees, I would suggest to move these projects to old-gnu/
> (for archiving purposes) and then close the corresponding savannah
> projects.

Generally we leave the savannah pages in place (we just mark them as orphaned,) 
just
in case anybody wants to revive them at some point in the future.

There are also other tasks which need to be done, (as mentioned in the 
howto-decommision 
document which I referenced earlier.  For example to keep www.gn.org consistent 
and 
up to date.

J'