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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On August 27, 2009, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 15:17 -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> > Henning Eggers <henning.eggers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > I would just like to start the discussion (again?) how to provide a
> > > good test-drive experience on production that makes it easy for people
> > > just to go ahead and try it out. Maybe it is as simple as providing
> > > real project deletion.
> >
> > What is the reason we don't provide project deletion, again?  (I.e., is
> > it policy, or is it just not gotten around to implementing it yet?)
>
> The project may have valuable artefacts for the community. We do not
> deactivate a project with code, or bugs for example because they are
> valuable to more that just the owner. If the owner does not want to
> maintain the project, he can give it to Registry Admins, or another
> user.
>
> Given the high number of still-born projects (no artefacts), I think we
> should consider allowing these project be deactivated on user demand or
> automatically after 12 months.

I thought we had an agreement on that one. 

But note that this wouldn't solve the above use-case since in the test-drive 
case, there would be artefacts.

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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