[advocacy-discuss] reminder: unused infrastructure on os.org

[Jim Grisanzio]

hey, guys.

The Advocacy Community sponsors a large number of projects on 
opensolaris.org (most of which are user groups). And, we've added a lot 
of OSUGs lately, which is very cool. We are happy to add more OSUGs if 
people want to form groups and use our website community resources.

However, because we have so much open infrastructure, there is always a 
fair amount of maintenance to be done. For instance, when an OSUG 
becomes abandoned, some of us go out hunting around for new owners for 
that group. This can be a time consuming effort, but we feel it's worth 
it to save the group's infrastructure. When we can't find anyone at all, 
we have no choice but to delete project and list since we can't have 
unmaintained stuff all over the site. Generally, in those cases, we are 
deleting empty lists and projects since they never really got off the 
ground. Last year I deleted over a dozen groups this way, but we haven't 
had to do it lately.

Currently, we have 18 lists that are not being used at all. So, two 
reminders:

First, we have a website policy that has a use provision for mailing lists:
http://opensolaris.org/os/site_guidelines/
We haven't been enforcing this policy to date, but the community is far 
too big now, and we have to more properly maintain our valuable 
infrastructure.

Second, if the proposed Constitution is approved in the election, it 
will come with a new project life cycle process, which contains a 
provision for archiving projects that have not been used for more than 6 
months:
http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_Group_Lifecycle_Administrative_Procedures

Also, as we prepare to move to the new site, there is no reason we 
should move abandoned projects. So, either way, the time has come to 
clean things up a bit. I'll be pinging the leaders of those 18 lists to 
determine if they are still around and if they have plans to use their 
infrastructure.

Thanks ...

Jim

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