[Foundation-l] Criteria for the closure of projects.

Fri Apr 11 07:46:52 UTC 2008

I have to disagree strongly with the latter two. 1000 articles is too
high a limit, all of the messages is perhaps not too unreasonable to
expect, but it should not ever be a criterium for closing a project.

Mark

On 10/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>  For quite some time, we have had people arguing for the closure of projects.
>  I have seen many arguments pro and against closures. What has been missing
>  in all these projects are objective criteria why it makes sense to find
>  fault with a project.
>
>  I have come up with three objective arguments.
>
>    - A project is not what it is advertised to be. For instance when a
>    language is always written in a particular script, a project in any other
>    script is problematic.
>    - A project does not have at least 90% of the most relevant messages
>    localised. For your information there are only 498 messages in this category
>    at the moment.
>    - A project should have at least 1000 articles. When there is nothing
>    to see what is the point ?
>
>  The first argument is an absolute, never mind the size.
>
>  For the second and third I would argue for closure when both conditions are
>  not met. When there is activity in either it may be reason for giving an
>  ultimatum. The ultimatum would be that both conditions need to be met within
>  three months.
>
>  The most important reason why we need viable projects is because it is sad
>  to see so much time wasted by good people on projects that have little or no
>  objective value. No value because nobody actively cares. Yes, people may
>  come along and get an interest and eventually they will, but time of
>  valuable people is wasted now and that provides in my opinion a really
>  strong extra argument.
>  Thanks,
>      GerardM
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