Launchpad itself

Marking projects 'abandoned'

Bug #75604 reported by Jelmer Vernooij
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Launchpad itself
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Bug Description

It should be possible to mark projects as abandoned and perhaps be able to indicate suggestions of active projects to try.

I can understand that there is no "delete" button for projects, as they can still be of historical interest, in particular for developers, but it can be very confusing to the user looking for a project if there are 3 or 4 products listed out of which only one ends up being still active.

A good example of this are GTK+ frontends to Bazaar. There are 5 registered on launchpad (bzrk, bzr-gtk, gannotate, olive-gtk, nautilus-bzr, gbzr) but most of these aren't useful at all and 99% users will thus have trouble finding something that actually works.

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David Allouche (ddaa) wrote :

I second this. The same problem applies to baseconfig-udeb, which no longer exists upstream but was packaged in Ubuntu Warty through Breezy. See https://answers.launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+ticket/2699.

Changed in launchpad:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
description: updated
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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote :

I also have https://launchpad.net/bzr-version-info which was a plugin I wrote which has since been merged into bzr core. There is no reason to maintain the plugin anymore, and I would rather not have people coming across it wondering if they should be using it.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry
Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance: Medium → Low
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad-registry:
milestone: none → series-10.05
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: projects
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Alexandra Tilbrook (alexatilbrook) wrote :

I third this!

The LP user, https://launchpad.net/~sixxie has abandoned his PPA, https://launchpad.net/~sixxie/+archive/ubuntu/ppa. I had to fork it because it only supported up to Xenial and I have repeatedly attempted to contact Ciarian to update his PPA through the LP system and his email address as listed on 6809.org.uk but to no avail. It's been a month I have contacted him (according to the email I sent), only to be met with silence.

I updated his `xroar` and `asm6809` packages to work on Bionic, and it works fine.

https://launchpad.net/~alexatilbrook/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

There needs to be a way to remind PPA owners (if that's the right term) that a new Ubuntu release is nigh and if they want their software to work, update soon; or at least mark the PPA as "abandoned" if no update within 4 months of new Ubuntu release.

But I do propose that some people only want to support LTS versions (like me), so people should have the option in their PPA to say "LTS versions only" or "All versions"... it's just me, nitpicking... but it's an idea in the right direction...

73, KI5AUE

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