Re: [VOTE] Disassemble the 'commons' notion

This isn't a chair-specific thing, no, and thanks for asking Benson!

I had started drafting up a message to the Attic folks, but just took a
closer look at http://attic.apache.org/process.html - the Attic seems highly
optimized for TLPs and not so much for subprojects.  Also, I hadn't realized
this but the Attic does not seem to have a separate SVN repository - rather,
it asks the projects to leave their content in-place (probably good for
limited support of old searches/links/etc) and make it read-only.  As such,
it may not actually be the best option for our subprojects.

Another option for us is to simply move the designated subprojects into our
own (read-only) archive, to sit alongside soap, pubscribe, etc....  We'd
still shut down the mailing lists (that's happening anyway), make the
appropriate JIRAs read-only, etc.

What do people think of that notion?  If we're +1 on that idea we can just do it.

Open question - should we leave at least top-level SVN dirs for the
subprojects that get archived, with a README?  We didn't do this for the
former ones, and it would make our SVN space less "clean", but it might be
nice for folks looking for the old stuff.  I guess I'd say no, it's easy
enough to find if we update the ws.apache.org page, but what do others think?

Thanks,
--Glen

On 10/18/2010 9:28 AM, Benson Margulies wrote:
> Is this a job for the chair, or could I be helpful by opening the door
> to the Attic?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Glen Daniels <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 10/18/2010 7:05 AM, Benson Margulies wrote:
>>>> I guess I'm +0 for doing this now, assuming that we will continue to have a
>>>> WS project in some way shape or form, containing many/most of these subprojects.
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, but what's the scoop on deleting things that got atticed or
>>> transfered to Axis?
>>
>> The stuff that moved to Axis can/should all be removed.  We still need to ask
>> the Attic folks to suck in WSIF and Muse over there so those should stay
>> until that happens.
>>
>> --Glen
>>