Reading/Web/Sunsetting a project
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Occasionally projects do not work out and need to be removed. This page provides a checklist for the tasks that should be carried out to do this effectively.
- Remove from Developers/Maintainers
- Notify users that the project is disappearing.
- This is especially important if the project involves storing data or if other projects are making use of APIs or internal functions.
- If user data is involved, users should be given at least a month to migrate their data and instructions on how to do so
- Remove extension from cluster and remove any configuration options set in the mediawiki-config repo.
- Update project as archived on mediawiki.org
- Remove test jobs from Jenkins
- If it's not being maintained its test may block merges elsewhere.
- Remove it from translatewiki
- Archive it from zuul/ci
- Abandon all open patchsets
- This sets expectation to users that their patches are no longer reviewed.
- If necessary, clone the repo on Github
- Link to the github repo so if they are interested they can continue development there
- Remove all files in a new commit or make a commit that disables the software contained in it (e.g. disable the entry point if it is an Mediawiki extension), so that a user that pulls it notices that we assume it has no users and it has no maintainer.
- Set extension on Gerrit as read only
- Remove the release tooling repo (specifically make-wmf-branch/config.json)