From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3507 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2009 15:09:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 3485 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Oct 2009 15:09:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-173-76-48-2.bstnma.east.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (173.76.48.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:09:21 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFDA3B0002; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:09:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 081BC2B352; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:09:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:09:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sourceware.org, Gerald Pfeifer Subject: Re: http://sourceware.org/gettext/ abandoned Message-ID: <20091010150910.GA2498@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sourceware.org, Gerald Pfeifer References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-q4/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 02:31:50PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >Looking at http://sourceware.org/gettext/ versus >http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ it is obvious that the former has >been abandoned. The -announce mailing list archives do not have a single >message over the last ten years, for example. > >How do we usually handle such a case? I think I usually say "I'd like to delete this" and someone says "Oh no! There are still people in Albania who rely on this web site for their sole survival! If you delete it, thousands will perish!!!!" But, really, I think we should archive the contents, remove the web site and the, mailing list. On a similar note, what about elix? That seems to be in a similar state. cgf