Help with sorting out unmaintained repos in the playground

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 7:38 PM Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
>
> On Sonntag, 5. April 2020 14:00:50 CEST Bhushan Shah wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 04:43:32PM +0530, Bhushan Shah wrote:
> > > Hello community,
> > >
> > > In preparation for upcoming move of KDE repositories to Gitlab we
> > > sysadmins wants to move the unused/inactive repositories to
> > > unmaintained/.
> > >
> > > Current list of all repositories: https://phabricator.kde.org/T12916
> >
> > Sorry for wrong wording here, but this list contains *all* playground
> > repositories, idea is to remove the maintained repos from this list, so
> > in end only unmaintained remains.
>
> What will happen to unmaintained repos? Will they be removed? There are quite
> a few in there, which are dead but I would like to keep for archiving
> purposes. If KDE's repositories are not the right place for this, I'll move
> them to GitHub? Or is there a better solution?

They will be imported into Gitlab, and then archived.
Archiving a project in Gitlab makes it read-only and removes it from
the normal search processes but still leaves it accessible should you
be looking for archived projects (or have the url for that project to
hand)

>
> There are a few in there which should probably transition through kde-review
> since they are already used by people. But there is noone with the resources
> to maintain them for real... So what should we do?
>
> devtools/plugins/kdev-verapp
> devtools/plugins/kdev-valgrind
> devtools/plugins/kdev-ruby
> devtools/plugins/kdev-xdebug
> devtools/plugins/kdev-upload
> devtools/plugins/kdev-css
> devtools/plugins/kdev-executebrowser
> devtools/plugins/kdev-mercurial
> devtools/plugins/kdev-embedded
> devtools/plugins/kdev-krazy2
> devtools/plugins/kdev-control-flow-graph
> devtools/quanta
>
> Having them in playground was a nice way to create something that may or may
> not work, quasi the "use on your own risk" place for code with no
> guarantees... Or something which only worked for the person working on it at
> some time.

Cheers,
Ben

>
> Cheers
> --
> Milian Wolff
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