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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0030.html |
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> Stuart has brought up the issue of what happens when a gentoo developer who |
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> uses a gentoo-hosted weblog leaves the project. Would it be unreasonable for |
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> us just to close and delete that log? |
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> The alternative to this is not to provide our developers with weblog hosting - |
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> instead, we'd get people to sign up for one of the many free blogging services |
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> available elsewhere. |
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> Thoughts? |
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Michael Kohl said it, but I believe not strongly enough: |
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Deleting a blog immediately upon a developer leaving could present |
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technical and legal difficulties. Closing/freezing the blog would not |
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provide such problems. It's possible that the blog could be deleted |
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after a time, but said deletion would need to be separated in both time |
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(due to legal issues) and project development (delete the blog too soon, |
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and you could lose important historical information.) |
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I'd suggest that deleting blogs for this reason would be unnecessary; |
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disk space is cheap, and blogs typically don't take up much space. If a |
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blog is ever deleted, it should be closed/frozen for at least 30 days |
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before actual deletion. |
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Ed |
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