Re: [BuildStream] Cleaning up BuildStream organization on GitLab

[Laurence Urhegyi <laurence urhegyi codethink co uk>]

Sorry for the late response on this one - I've been away on holiday. Yes 
I'll pick this up.

Cheers,
Laurence

On 2019-06-27 09:17, Sander Striker wrote:
> That sounds like a plan then.  Laurence, are you picking that up?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sander
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 8:34 PM Laurence Urhegyi via buildstream-list
> <buildstream-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Chandan,
> >
> > I think it's a good idea (we actually discussed it during the irc
> > meeting a few weeks back too).
> >
> > One thing we could look at is archiving the projects instead of
> > deleting:
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/#archiving-a-project
> > I think we take each project on a case by case, locate the
> > owner/maintainer and liaise with them to shut it down. I think this
> > is
> > non controversial and we can get started on it without delay.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Laurence
> >
> > On 2019-06-24 19:07, Chandan Singh wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was browsing the list of repositories under the BuildStream
> > > organization on
> > > GitLab [1] and we appear to have accumulated a lot of repositories
> > over
> > > time.
> > >
> > > I, for one, don't think we actually need all of them. For some of
> > them,
> > > I am not
> > > sure if the BuildStream organization is the right place.
> > >
> > > I think there's value in ensuring that the organization page
> > doesn't
> > > list
> > > things that are outdated or unsupported.
> > >
> > > Sorry to pick on certain projects but here are some examples of
> > what I
> > > am
> > > talking about:
> > >
> > > * gnome-test-data [2] describes itself as "A temporary project,
> > this
> > > should be removed soon". It was last updated an year ago, and
> > > evidently
> > > hasn't been removed :)
> > >
> > > * bst-plugins-ostree was never used, but exists.
> > >
> > > * I am also unsure whether the nosoftware subgroup [4] is used by
> > > anyone or
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > So, I wanted to ask how others feel about this? And if people
> > agree,
> > > how should
> > > we proceed?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Chandan
> > >
> > > [1]: https://gitlab.com/BuildStream
> > > [2]: https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/gnome-test-data
> > > [3]: https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/bst-plugins-ostree
> > > [4]: https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/nosoftware
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