Re: Archiving 120 Git modules with no commit in 3 or more years



On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:07 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:33:47AM +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> > > Checking the last commits of the modules on git.gnome.org, I noticed we
> > > have 120 modules which haven't received a commit in the last 3 years.
> > >
> > > I'll archive the modules somewhere this week (modules can easily be
> > > moved out of the archive).
> > >
> > > I've archived modules before when I was really sure that nobody would
> > > use it... but 120 is a bit much to check. Posting this list so if anyone
> > > has an objection, I'll not archive the git module.
> > >
> > > The intention is to ensure that http://git.gnome.org/browse/ is readable
> > > (old stuff in archive).
> > 
> > You might move the old glade module (its now called glade_legacy ?) into
> > the archive too as I did not see it in the list.
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity, are they just going to be in another directory ?
> > 
> > http://git.gnome.org/archives/browse/ or such ?
> 
> ATM they're lumped together on the same page. My first priority is
> archiving stuff. Then to figure out how to show it :)
> 
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/ already is split into two pages, with a
> hack to make show the archived and deprecated modules at the bottom.
> 
> Aiming for:
> 1. Different URL
> 2. Hiding the contents of Archived section (IMO deprecated should be
> shown until they're archived)
> 3. Decreasing the number of modules shown per page. Currently set at
> 1000, could decrease it so most archived modules are not on the first
> page.
> 
> Prefer option #2.
> 

May I ask big the problem is? Splitting into subpages/hiding makes it
more difficult to find (I usually search using C-f as it is much faster
then determining in which it is in).

Regards

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