[Foundation-l] Seeking clarification

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The projects that have failed are the ones that showed no activity, had no
content. For active projects it is appropriate and safe to leave their
continued existence to their community. When an active project is in
violation of our basic principles, they are told to do better and this has
been enforced on several occasions. In the case of legal issues, a project
can be killed and projects have been killed for legal reasons.

Projects, communities are autonomous to a very large degree. Hosting an
uninteresting project does not cost us much. When it gets to the stage where
the community is gone, no activity not even the minimal maintenance can be
observed, projects do get killed or moved sideways. I do not advocate
killing of projects as long as there is life in them. We should not kill
what is a living breathing project operating within our basic principles.
Thanks,
     GerardM



On Jan 23, 2008 12:40 AM, <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 1/22/2008 6:37:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> gerard.meijssen at gmail.com writes:
>
> When a wiki failed we killed them.
>
> and
>
> . When a  particular project does a different or a better job,
> inside or outside the  WMF framework, people will find it, recognise
>  this.
> GerardM
>
>
>
> And if it doesn't can we kill them?
>
> Danny
>
>
>
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