Retirement of SVN Commitfilter and Legacy Get Hot New Stuff systems

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
>
> It's kind of a daft request maybe, but could you take some good
> screenshots of the system's screens before it's shut down and add
> it somewhere to your sysadmin docs?
>
> I think it's nice to create some institutional memory when we retire
> systems like this. The next time someone has to implement a commit
> notification thingie for KDE, they have more old systems to look at
> for inspiration. It was also in use a really long time and was part
> of our dev culture; I can see historical value, e.g. a sysadmin
> using them in a dfaure-style presentation of the history of our
> infrastructure at some point.

I think we can arrange that. It was intended for SVN so some bits of
it don't really apply anymore in a Git era but we can certainly take
some snapshots.

>
> Memory is important, without it we squander the advantages of being
> a community with history :)

Last chance for anyone with any objections - i'll be starting the
dismantling process tomorrow morning (my time).
>
>
> Cheers,
> Eike
>

Cheers,
Ben

>
> On 08/04/2017 06:39 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone have any further feedback on this?
>>
>> If no objections are raised in the next 24 hours we'll be proceeding
>> with the archival and shutdown process.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>>