RFC: Archived projects should explain in their readme why they were archived

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2025, 17:58:04 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb 
Ben Cooksley:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM Christoph Cullmann <christoph at cullmann.io>
> 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sunday, December 28th, 2025 at 13:06, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <
> > 
> > kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
<snip content="add custom default branch, with just a README file"/>
> > 
> > I personally would prefer the note added just to the README.
> > 
> > That has a lot less steps to do and undo on the admin side of GitLab.
> > No default branch changing and Co.
> > But that is just my 2c.
> 
> Default branches also don't propagate across our mirroring logic, so it
> would have to be changed in two places, and then undone in two places.

Please see my proposal mainly from consumer perspective, I found those 
setups pretty clear to digest and a positive experience.

Given repos are not archived on masse, doing those extra steps seems doable 
to me now and then. But won't do the actual work, so...

Cheers
Friedrich