On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 18:43, Chris Lambertus <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m not sure how you read “policy” out of my statement that we don’t > typically remove these groups, especially since I did remove the groups.
Perhaps policy was too strong a word; I understood the comment to mean that normal Infra practise is to not remove the groups, and that removal of Oltu was an exception. I'm glad I misunderstood. > Removing the groups is actually part of the documented decom process, but it > often gets overlooked, and really doesn’t cause any issues one way or the > other, so it’s highly likely that there are some other obsolete groups out > there as well. Unless someone comes and asks about them, they’ll stay out > there forever if Infra forgets to remove them during a project retirement. > Please feel free to submit a ticket if there are other groups which need to > be removed. OK, will do. There are some retired podlings which still have groups. > -Chris > > > > > > On Jan 31, 2019, at 1:06 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Up until now, it has been Attic policy to request removal of the LDAP > > groups relating to projects that have moved to the Attic. I think the > > same is true of podlings. > > > > However when I requested deletion of Oltu groups, I was told that it > > was now policy not to remove obsolete groups [1] > > > > I'm hopeful that policy can be reversed. > > > > There are various places where LDAP group memberships are listed, and > > it will be confusing to show an ever increasing number of obsolete > > groups. > > > > S. > > [1] > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-17784?focusedCommentId=16756864&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-16756864 >
