[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: decommissioning packages

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:28:06PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> rms and I are engaged in a long process of cleaning up the GNU
> maintainers file, which means a lot of dead packages are finally getting
> officially decommissioned.  Some of them have projects on savannah,
> e.g., https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/awacs.
> 
> Do you think anything need be done (on savannah, that is; I have a
> longish list of non-savannah things to do) besides putting a note in the
> summary and giving them orphaned/unmaintained status?
> 
> The only other thing I can think of is that it seems slightly strange to
> leave them saying they are "official GNU software" since they're not any
> longer.  What would be involved with shunting them off to another
> category ("decommissioned GNU software")?

How about:
- switch to non-GNU
- put a note in the summary

You still have to:
- ask sysadmin to move gnu.org/s/package/ -> nongnu.org/package/
- move the ftp.gnu.org/gnu/package -> dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/package
- move mailing lists from nongnu.org->gnu.org, or at least add the
  nongnu.org alias

I think that's all.

-- 
Sylvain