[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] [action required] We are removing inactive projects.

[Chase Pettet]

Thanks Chad.

The timeline is more generous than a single month really.

In 38 days we will consider resources who no one has indicated are active
as possible to suspend.  31 days after that if no one has noticed these
instances are unavailable we will remove them.

There are 69 days between now and any removal.  70 days from the initial
notice yesterday.  We are not asking for owners or admins only.  We are
looking for clarification on what is used from anyone who knows.  There is
no foolproof way to do this but we are trying to be mindful.

In case some of of the readers of this list are unaware, new instance
creation is currently suspended due to capacity.  We have some new
resources we are working diligently to use for expanding but they are still
a limited solution.

Thanks to everyone helping out,

Chase Pettet

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Chad Horohoe <chorohoe at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten at mdammers.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I know resources are limited but I very very strongly object with this
>> course of action. A lot of people are not on these mailing list, just not
>> reading it or on holiday because it's summer. Suspending, shutting down and
>> deletion projects is a good way to piss off and scare away volunteers. I'm
>> sure that's not your intended outcome.
>>
>>
> It's winter in the southern hemisphere. And this winter it'll be summer
> down there.
> My point is: someone's always on vacation. I think the one-month window is
> more
> than enough for people to chime in. Also: he said that anyone could mark
> an instance
> as used, it doesn't have to be the *owner*
>
> As far as not being on this list: I'd recommend that they join. Still, 1
> month is plenty of
> time for notifications to go out in like Tech News too.
>
> -Chad
>
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