[Qgis-psc] still 155 projects on hub :-(

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 19-09-16 07:47, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Il 18/09/2016 11:55, Anita Graser ha scritto:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde
>> <rdmailings at duif.net <mailto:rdmailings at duif.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     we still have 155 projects on hub:
>>
>>     mysql> select count(*) from projects;
>>     +----------+
>>     | count(*) |
>>     +----------+
>>     |      155 |
>>     +----------+
>>     1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>>
>>     Is it an idea to do some broader communication about the removal?
>>
>>     Like writing pushing the email to blog.qgis.org <http://blog.qgis.org>?
>>
>>
>> ​+1 
>>
>> Suggestion: blog post + emails to announce deadline in 7 days,
>> afterwards we move on.
> 
> Thanks Richard. I'm working on it. After a bunch of responses, thanks to
> which I could delete several tens of projects, now I'm getting little or
> no feedback.
> I agree that keep on soliciting a response from authors is necessary,
> and probably a blog post + tweets etc. could help.
> After that I can send another email (it would greatly help if we could
> extract only addresses of the remaining authors).
> I do not think we should delete any project, unless they are really
> useless, as this would hurt our users. I can evaluate individual
> projects once the number has gone down to a reasonable size (say, under 50).
> Alternative approaches:
> * leave only the unmigrated projects on the old redmine (not nice, we'll
> have to maintain the old infrastructure)
> * mark them as unmaintained/orphaned and move them (to GH?).

Hi Paolo,

another option I thought about this weekend:
- backup current mysql database, then clean up all projects in original one
- do the migration and start issues.qgis.org
- put backed-up mysql db (with all projects) back at hub
- start hub  (with old redmine and db) on request or when needed

But I'm also ok with allowing <50 (<20?) project to move to issues.

Regards,

Richard