[website-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Project/Community EOL procedures? (was Re: spam in the forums...)

[James Carlson]

Jim Grisanzio writes:
> We'll not lose any critical history and here's why: active groups 
> maintain their content and infrastructure very well, and their stuff 
> will be moved over to the new site. Once there, XWiki will provide a 
> convenient content management system for page histories, etc. However, 
> there is no need to move over empty groups or piles of abandoned 
> content. If we can delete that stuff, that would be helpful.

I would recommend checking out the dicussion that occurred over in
networking-discuss.  There's a substantial part of the engineering
community that disagrees vehemently with that assertion:

  http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=103471&tstart=0

... and is in fact quite surprised and dismayed that removing old
projects is even under discussion.

(Personally, I *do* agree, and I think that old projects ought to be
flushed, and that the real problem here is a lack of a good design
documentation repository and a lack of process related to integrating
that sort of crucial information.  I'm pretty much alone in that,
though.)

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