[Qgis-psc] still 155 projects on hub :-(
Tim Sutton
tim at qgis.org
Mon Sep 19 14:12:18 PDT 2016
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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