Hoi, For quite some time, we have had people arguing for the closure of projects. I have seen many arguments pro and against closures. What has been missing in all these projects are objective criteria why it makes sense to find fault with a project.
I have come up with three objective arguments.
- A project is not what it is advertised to be. For instance when a language is always written in a particular script, a project in any other script is problematic. - A project does not have at least 90% of the most relevant messages localised. For your information there are only 498 messages in this category at the moment. - A project should have at least 1000 articles. When there is nothing to see what is the point ?
The first argument is an absolute, never mind the size.
For the second and third I would argue for closure when both conditions are not met. When there is activity in either it may be reason for giving an ultimatum. The ultimatum would be that both conditions need to be met within three months.
The most important reason why we need viable projects is because it is sad to see so much time wasted by good people on projects that have little or no objective value. No value because nobody actively cares. Yes, people may come along and get an interest and eventually they will, but time of valuable people is wasted now and that provides in my opinion a really strong extra argument. Thanks, GerardM