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List:       avalon-dev
Subject:    Re: collections is released!
From:       Stephen McConnell <mcconnell () apache ! org>
Date:       2002-10-25 0:40:57
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Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:

>
> Peter Donald wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:41, Berin Loritsch wrote:
>>
>>> Should we have a "dead" directory, and move the dead projects there
>>> before deleting?  In this case, we would have:
>>>
>>> jakarta-avalon-excalibur/dead/collections
>>>
>>> The build file would still work, but no wasted effort will be used to
>>> maintain the collections.
>>>
>>> Would that be sufficient?
>>
>>
>> I would prefer to leave it as is. Theres no real need to separate out 
>> the code. The deprecation warnings say it all. Maybe we could add an 
>> extra WARNING.txt file to base directory but that should be it.
>>
>> We don't separate out stable/alpha stuff so I don't see any need to 
>> separate out graveyard stuff and I would thing that quite a few 
>> people would still object if we did it to ECM
>
>
> When a project is dead, that means some months from now, IMHO it would 
> be ok just to delete all the files in collections, thus nudging them 
> to the Attic, adding a Warning and redirecting downloads to a CVS 
> tarball in the distributions
>
>   avalon-collections-mummified.tar.gz
>
> I see people get confused when "dead" code is left there in CVS.


Agreed - getting a grip on the status of different Excalibur projects is 
really difficult.  Seperating out dead content is a positive move.

Steve.

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