On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 03:12:31PM -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > > Does Savannah have any policy/system in place for removing projects or > > users that are inactive? > > > > No. > > > > Also, I'm not sure "inactive" is the right criteria for any deletion. > > > > A "nonexistent" project which has never had a commit or any other > > substantive content would make sense to me to delete. Otherwise, I > > doubt it. I hope to write more about this later today. > > > > As for users, I see no criteria to apply. Maybe after a few more years > > we could say "hasn't logged in in 20 years", but even 10 years seems too > > aggressive to me :). I'm crazy I guess ... > > Not crazy at all, imho. > I see no value in deleting inactive users or projects. > For inactive projects, perhaps delist them from some index if they > have had no commit in a very long time, but I can imagine even that > could feel wrong for some project.
I did a massive clean-up of users who didn't do ANYTHING (no post, no project membership, no nothing) a few years ago. I think I ditched 15000 accounts at that time, and some people complained that they "reserved their username" on Savannah. Not much value besides easying my work on Savane->Savane-python migration scripts at that time. Cheers! Sylvain
