Re: Luaforge full of empty projects.

["Bruce O. Benson" <bbenson@...>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:44 PM, George Petsagourakis <petsagouris@gmail.com> wrote:

There is a big number of projects that are on the Luaforge.net system but
haven't produced anything in their lifetime. Why are they still there?

Is there any administration function inbuilt to the forge system to email the
owners if they want to keep the project or not after a specific period?

Shouldn't this be taken care of in order to prevent the ghost projects?

Keeping only the active projects will help luaforge to raise the overall quality.

Sourceforge felt the need to address this problem a couple of years ago.

Their solution:  
- warning emails to managers of projects that had never posted code
- project managers were given some reasonable time to post any code at all
- upon expiration of the warning period, all such projects were deleted

I was personally affected (guilty of creating a niche dead project proposal that was deleted), and still thought it was a great idea.  I thought it would give others a chance to stake out good code, and reinvigorated Sourceforge

YMMV at Luaforge.

bb.
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