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[Savannah-hackers] Re: Clarification on removing projects
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Elfyn McBratney |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: Clarification on removing projects |
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Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:25:04 +0100 (BST) |
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Richard Stallman said:
> 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.
>
> Please ask me for confirmation before removing any GNU package on
> Savannah.
Will do.
In the case of GNU Fribidi, is it OK by you to remove the project?
> As for non-GNU packages, if the developers want to remove them,
> please do so.
>
> *Always* make sure we keep a permanent copy of all the data in the
> project, before you delete it. Talk with Paul to work out how to do
> make sure of this.
Right, this is what I wanted to be sure about. I will speak with Paul
about creating backups of the CVS and mailing list data.
> 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?
>
> In general, once you are deleting a project, you should ask the
> developers how they want you to handle these things, and do what they
> want. For instance, they might want you to forward the mailing lists.
OK, I will ask them in future, and will ask the maintainer of GNU Fribidi
now what he wants to do.
Thanks for clarifying this.
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Elfyn