Re: [Fwd: [Bug 670975] New: Archive "libgnomedb" and "mergeant" modules in Git]

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Gil,

you're as usual too fast for me. :)

Short answer: Today I closed merchant, libgnomedb, esound, mcatalog,
desktop-data-model, gnome-cups-manager, gnome-mount.
In case they are listed on l10n.gnome.org, they should be removed.

Long version, partially offtopic:

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 21:29 +0100, Gil Forcada wrote:
> Hi translators,
> 
> Seems that we should remove does modules from l10n.gnome.org :)
> 
> Andre, is there any way that we (gnome-i18n mailing list) can get
> notifications when modules are archived?

The draft on my computer named "Killing dead projects in GNOME"
currently lists contacting gnome-i18n for exactly this reason, but it
was still on the ToDo-list until I have a better overview and more data
collected. Realized today that just asking maintainers about Bugzilla
does not make sense, should also ask about archiving in Git etc...

<----snip--->
Killing dead projects
* Identifying dead projects
 * git activity
If a project seems dead:
* Contact its maintainers - check the MAINTAINERS or .doap 
  file in the git repository
* Once it is decided that the project is dead:
* Bugzilla
 * Close module for new bug entry
 * Mass-close open tickets of the module as WONTFIX by using template
 * Move to "Deprecated" classification
 * File request in "sysadmin" Bugzilla product to move product
   to the git archive (Z_Archived) - explain that codebase is still
   accessible by adding "/archive" in the URI
* Notify l10n to remove from damned-lies
* Dead mailing lists: Do we archive them?
<----/snip--->

Anything missing?

In general I wonder which mailing list to use to discuss community
metrics. I ran a script for each module in GNOME Git telling me the
number of git commits in the last 1,2,3,4 years, its Bugzilla
classification, the number of open Bugzilla reports, if it's listed on
l10n.gnome.org, and which jhbuild moduleset it is part of.
Problem is that we have no "complete" data source, all available ones
are different, so I still have to manually find modules that are listed
in Bugzilla but not in GNOME Git.
Once my gathered data is clearer and cleaner I plan to publish the
results table so we can all have fun cleaning up. Or not. :P

andre
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