Re: GitLab to plans to delete dormant projects

[John Kehayias]

Hi all,

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On Saturday, August 6th, 2022 at 9:08 AM, Olivier Dion via "Development of GNU 
Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> Following this article https://lwn.net/Articles/903858/, GitLab is
> planning to start deleting project that were idle for > 12 months.
>
> Many packages origin in Guix use an url to a GitLab project. What are
> the consequence of such deletion on Guix reproducibility? Will it
> affects the time-machine?
>

I think having good backup and archival plans are great, so not to dissuade 
anyone on this, but as an update here looks like GitLab has walked back on this:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/gitlab_reverses_deletion_policy/

John