This isn't a chair-specific thing, no, and thanks for asking Benson! I had started drafting up a message to the Attic folks, but just took a closer look at http://attic.apache.org/process.html - the Attic seems highly optimized for TLPs and not so much for subprojects. Also, I hadn't realized this but the Attic does not seem to have a separate SVN repository - rather, it asks the projects to leave their content in-place (probably good for limited support of old searches/links/etc) and make it read-only. As such, it may not actually be the best option for our subprojects.
Another option for us is to simply move the designated subprojects into our own (read-only) archive, to sit alongside soap, pubscribe, etc.... We'd still shut down the mailing lists (that's happening anyway), make the appropriate JIRAs read-only, etc. What do people think of that notion? If we're +1 on that idea we can just do it. Open question - should we leave at least top-level SVN dirs for the subprojects that get archived, with a README? We didn't do this for the former ones, and it would make our SVN space less "clean", but it might be nice for folks looking for the old stuff. I guess I'd say no, it's easy enough to find if we update the ws.apache.org page, but what do others think? Thanks, --Glen On 10/18/2010 9:28 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Is this a job for the chair, or could I be helpful by opening the door > to the Attic? > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Glen Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/18/2010 7:05 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: >>>> I guess I'm +0 for doing this now, assuming that we will continue to have a >>>> WS project in some way shape or form, containing many/most of these >>>> subprojects. >>>> >>> >>> OK, but what's the scoop on deleting things that got atticed or >>> transfered to Axis? >> >> The stuff that moved to Axis can/should all be removed. We still need to ask >> the Attic folks to suck in WSIF and Muse over there so those should stay >> until that happens. >> >> --Glen >>
