On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 05:25:00PM -0400, Benson Margulies wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 02:59:33PM +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> >> > Gavin McDonald wrote on Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 16:35:47 +1000: >> >> > > The retirement guide [1] makes no mention of removing podling >> >> > > websites but I think they should all be removed at retirement, >> >> > > thoughts? >> >> > >> >> > This doesn't need to be on private@... >> >> >> >> Good catch, Daniel. My preference would be to avoid erasing podling web >> >> presences on retirement, >> >> If an RO svn is retained, some sort of web presence explaining it >> makes sense to me. But I agree that a pseudo-active-project web site >> is not the right sort of web presence. > > Yes, I also agree that a site which misleads visitors into thinking that a > retired podling is active is not desirable. > > When a top-level project enters the Attic, its website gets updated to reflect > the fact that it has been retired. For instance, all of Hivemind's web pages > have a big red banner alerting visitors to the project's status: > > http://hivemind.apache.org/ > http://hivemind.apache.org/download.html > > Provided that someone is willing to do that work, that there is zero ongoing > maintenance burden, and that there are no practical or legal difficulties, I > think something similar would also be OK for a retired podling -- however, > that's not necessarily my preferred approach. > > Another option which might be cleaner and less burdensome to administer would > be to create a boilerplate "Retired Podling" static html page which would > replace the website for any podling which does not graduate. This page would > give a brief explanation of the project's history and status and point at any > remaining resources, such as read-only SVN if the podling completed a > successful code grant. > > If there is interest in that idea, I volunteer to help create the template for > the "Retired Podling" page.
+1 > > I have two objectives with this proposal. The first is practical: we should > aid > users who may come looking for a project to learn what happened to it with > minimal effort. > > The other goal is to help podlings retire with dignity. Every software > project > has a life cycle, there are many reasons why a podling might not make it > to graduation, and a lot may have been accomplished during an attempt at > incubation. I think our default policy should be to recognize and celebrate > the contributions that a podling's volunteers made while it was active. > > Marvin Humphrey > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
