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

[Andrew Bogott]

On 7/8/16 4:02 PM, Maarten Dammers 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. 
I always make an attempt to personally contact project admins before 
taking steps that affect a project.  That said:  If you are a consumer 
of Labs resources, it is your /responsibility/ to subscribe to this list 
and read announcements from admins.  Any unattended and unmaintained 
server is not just a wasted expense; it is a potential security risk to 
all of Labs.

> Suspending, shutting down and deletion projects is a good way to piss 
> off and scare away volunteers.
And spending thousands of dollars of donor money on resources for 
projects that no one has looked at in years is a good way to ensure that 
we never have any new volunteers, because we don't have any resources to 
give them.  It's clearly a balancing act, but I'm not clear on what the 
alternatives are to having these periodic clean-ups.

-A

> I'm sure that's not your intended outcome.
>
> Maarten
>
> On 08-07-16 18:09, Andrew Bogott wrote:
>> If you are exclusively a user of tool labs, you can ignore this 
>> email. If you use or administer another labs project, this email 
>> REQUIRES ACTION ON YOUR PART.
>>
>> We are reclaiming unused resources due to an ongoing shortage.
>>
>> Visit this page and add a signature under projects you know to be active:
>>
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Purge_2016
>>
>> Associated wmflabs.org <http://wmflabs.org> domains are included to 
>> identify projects by offered services.
>>
>> We are not investigating why projects are needed at this time.  If 
>> one person votes to preserve then we will do so in this round of cleanup.
>>
>> In a month, projects and associated instances not claimed will be 
>> suspended or shutdown.  A month later if no one complains these 
>> projects will be deleted..
>>
>> - Andrew (on behalf of all Labs Admins everywhere)
>>
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