[X2Go-User] Launchpad cleanup

[Robert Dinse]

      I really would like to avoid the Microsoft mentality.  One reason people
move to Linux is so that their existing environment and software can continue
to work without forced upgrades.  Myself I'm a bleeding edge guy but a lot of
people just want something to work and not have to screw with it.

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On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:45:20 +0200
> From: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de>
> To: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Launchpad cleanup
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> Am 24.09.2015 um 21:34 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
>> We don't want to provide old code for download containing known
>> bugs and security issues.
>
> I disagree with you here.  As long as the repo is clearly tagged
> "archive", "unsupported", "outdated" or something similar, it should
> be made available.
> That way, people "in dire need" can download a copy from there and get
> their systems up and running again, but they're also made aware of the
> fact that this is not a supported, current release - with all the
> functionality, dependency and security hellholes it may bring.
>
> Unix is about freedom of possibilities - this includes the possibility
> to shoot yourself in the foot if you're not careful.
>
>
>>> Think of a user that is stuck with an unsupported
>>> distribution/release for some reason or other.  Do you really
>>> want to punish that user for not keeping a local copy of the
>>> repository?
>>
>> I can think of them, but as a community project, we do neither have
>> man power nor resources to support those non-supported scenarios.
>
> This is not about support.  This is simply about leaving things that
> were already available where they are (alright, mv'ing them to a
> slightly different location, but still, you get my point).
>
> People expect things to be there, especially if there's no previous
> announcement that a mass delete is about to happen.
>
> So, in short: Next time, when you perform such an action, please send
> out a "heads-up" message to x2go-project at least 2 weeks prior to
> taking action.  If nobody steps up to mirror/move the repo, I will
> then notify x2go-dev and x2go-user.
>
> - -Stefan
> X2Go Project/Community Coordinator
>
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