Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Dead project cleanup - Merging Presentation with Public Relations

[David Abbott]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Matthew Marchese <maffblaster@g.o> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thought I'd send a RFC out to you all to get a little feedback before I
> make any changes to this since I didn't originally start the project. If
> no one responds with a good reason why NOT to make the changes I
> purpose, I will proceed in a somewhat timely manner.
>
> It's been over a year since I manually moved the Presentation Project
> from wwwold to the wiki. No one who was previously involved in the
> project has presumed membership (or leadership) with the project.
> There's only been one meaningful edit by Rich0 to one of the project's
> two subpages. He kindly added links to a Gentoo presentation he recently
> gave.
>
> I currently see no reason why we need a separate project for
> Presentations. Maybe once when Gentoo PR was busier and we had more
> people giving talks it was necessary. If we're just looking for a place
> to host links or files I think merging this project with Public
> Relations will work nicely. I propose hosting the content of this
> project under the Public Relations project, since it has members who are
> actually overseeing it as Project specification (GLEP:39) demands.
>
> Empty projects should be removed. They are dead. It's not me who says
> it, it's GLEP 39. Be mad at it, not me. :P
>
> I already have a repo for PR setup at projects.g.o. I will make a
> presentations/ directory for storing the PDF files that Robin was
> recently looking for...I'll have to dig them out of the Wayback Machine,
> but that shouldn't take me too long.
>
> Your wiki warrior,
>
> Maffblaster
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Presentation
>
>
>

Hi Matthew,
Thanks for cleaning this stuff up :)
David

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