Re: [Savannah-hackers] Clarification on removing projects

[Sylvain Beucler]

As far as I am concerned, I feel we can stick to the policy we  
discussed a while ago, described in "Hacking Savannah".

In the present case, I guess we will delete everything "to avoid  
confusion". For a GNU project, it is delicate to remove all since the  
account needed to update www.gnu.org pages and @gnu.org mailing-lists,  
that GNU maintainers should primarily use. But since RMS agrees, fine.
However, maybe RMS should Cc us, so as to confirm such decisions.

What we may do though is creating a new minimal group type where  
nothing is possible except changing the project description so as to  
point to the new location.

--
Sylvain


On 2004.06.30 19:05, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We currently have a few requests to remove projects from Savannah in
> the
> support queue, but before I take the plunge I'd like to request some
> advice.
>
> In the case where projects have moved to another Free Software  
> hosting
> service I understand it's our policy to delete the project, but I'm
> not
> sure whether that should also mean that other data belonging to the
> project should also be removed.
>
> For example, say project `foo' has moved bar.org, should I just  
> delete
> the
> project via the front-end or should I also remove the it's CVS
> repository,
> webcvs repository, download area, any existing mailing lists, etc?
>
> Also, in the case of removing a GNU project, what is the procedure?
> See
> this current request for example:
>
>   Hi,
>
>   I wish to drop the GNU FriBidi (fribidi) project from Savannah, and
> also
>   drop lists fribidi-list, fribidi-announce, and bug-fribidi.
>
>   We have already set up GNU FriBidi on freedesktop.org, with
> permission
>   from RMS.
>
>   Thanks
>   behdad
>
> In this case what should we do?  Delete the project?  Delete the
> project
> and all of it's data?  Close the project?  Anything else?