Re: Update README for retired podlings?

2017-11-02 Thread Dave Fisher
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2017, at 7:06 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 6:17 PM Dave Fisher wrote: >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> On Nov 2, 2017, at 3:08 PM, sebb wrote: On 2 November 2017 at 21:07, Dave Fisher wrote: Actually when the

Re: Update README for retired podlings?

2017-11-02 Thread John D. Ament
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 6:17 PM Dave Fisher wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 2, 2017, at 3:08 PM, sebb wrote: > > > >> On 2 November 2017 at 21:07, Dave Fisher wrote: > >> Actually when the podling is retired the SVN and or GIT must be > deleted. It’s mean, but if people cared they

Re: Update README for retired podlings?

2017-11-02 Thread Dave Fisher
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2017, at 3:08 PM, sebb wrote: > >> On 2 November 2017 at 21:07, Dave Fisher wrote: >> Actually when the podling is retired the SVN and or GIT must be deleted. >> It’s mean, but if people cared they could have contributed and kept it going. > > Huh? > > The w

Re: Update README for retired podlings?

2017-11-02 Thread sebb
On 2 November 2017 at 21:07, Dave Fisher wrote: > Actually when the podling is retired the SVN and or GIT must be deleted. It’s > mean, but if people cared they could have contributed and kept it going. Huh? The website is deleted, but AFAIK SVN/Git is just made read-only. > Regards, > Dave >

Re: Update README for retired podlings?

2017-11-02 Thread Christopher
I just meant "mean" in that it makes it harder for the project to be picked back up if there's renewed interest. I understand deleting SVN... because it's still in the history, but I think it's strange if ASF deleted GIT... because that deletes history. Perhaps just delete the GIT mirror on GitHub?

Re: Update README for retired podlings?

2017-11-02 Thread Dave Fisher
Actually when the podling is retired the SVN and or GIT must be deleted. It’s mean, but if people cared they could have contributed and kept it going. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2017, at 1:56 PM, Christopher wrote: > > Should the Apache Incubator update the README on all re

Update README for retired podlings?

2017-11-02 Thread Christopher
Should the Apache Incubator update the README on all retired podlings, to more clearly indicate their retired status? For example, from the README at https://github.com/apache/incubator-pirk , it's not obvious that the podling is retired. I know there's a RETIRED.txt file, but that's easily overl