Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Abandoned project (gSatellite).

[Hugo Gayosso]

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"Jaime E . Villate" <address@hidden> writes:

> The author thinks it is useless. Should we keep useless projects or
> not?  should we trust the author's judgment on what is useful or
> not, or go and decide by ourselves?

I think we should keep the project available, maybe it is useless
today, but I think somebody who wants to learn how Audiogalaxy worked
could benefit from the source code of this project.

Also, maybe that person is interested in learning about Audiogalaxy
because he/she wants to set up a similar service, etc...


> > I think we should just make a new group, (like nongnu/gnu/www.gnu.org) 
> > that holds the projects without maintainers.  And put it there.
> 
> That's a good suggestion, there could be an "orphaned" projects section

I like this idea, I remember there was a web site for orphaned
projects, but I don't remember any more details.  In any case there
should be such section in Savannah.


> and in the registration form for a new project we could advise the
> author to first check whether there is already an orphaned project
> that he could adopt, rather than registering a new project.

As long as it is not a required step (first check or we won't approve
the project), I don't see any problem.

> If we create that orphaned section, we should also advertise it
> among project maintainers telling them that if they ever get too
> busy to maintain a project, they should orphan them.

Definitely.


P.S.
  Sorry for not helping you guys out with all the daily issues and
  just jumping to some discussions, but my time has to be divided (as
  yours is).

Greetings,
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Hugo Gayosso
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