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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 19 Sep 2016, at 8:19 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I think we should just end of life the hub (and the remaining projects). I am happy to write a blog post if that helps....

Regards

Tim


> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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Tim Sutton
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