Archiving repositories

[neoncitylights]

Making this ticket after a ping in Brickimedia/splash@ea75cbb (thanks for the ping!)

We'll probably be fine with deleting most of them or all of them. Here are some reasons why:

• Don't have a purpose anymore (e.g the LocalSettings repo or extensions repo which is just a group of gitmodules)
• others have been already migrated (e.g Refreshed and ArticleRatings)
• Migrated and merged into something else (NumberOfComments was merged into Comments, GlobalContribs is in progress of being merged into GlobalContributions, DeepSea was archived after it was merged into the Theme extension, becoming a new available theme)
• Archived (Snippet was archived in favor of TextExtracts extension), or USERNAME as an example, which didn't work as a PHP implementation.
• or projects that used to be worked on but aren't worked on anymore (the Answers extension, Custard + Lia + Quartz skins, design-guide)

Pinging for @georgebarnick and @mary-kate for thoughts on this.

[georgebarnick]

Is there a built-in way to archive a repository through GitHub?

[neoncitylights]

Yes. (https://help.github.com/articles/archiving-a-github-repository/ https://help.github.com/articles/archiving-repositories/ etc)

If archiving is preferred to deleting, I'm fine with that too

[georgebarnick]

I'd rather that just to preserve backlinks and other traces where we might have linked to stuff in the past.

[georgebarnick]

Archived LocalSettings and extensions as they're both deprecated repositories. Waiting to hear if anyone else has thoughts on archiving other repositories before proceeding.

[neoncitylights]

I was thinking of blanking the skin + extension repos so that just in case there's people who are using those, are forced to use whatever we provide as the replacement in the README instead. (e.g Brickimedia/Refreshed should provide a link to wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Refreshed, Brickimedia/Snippet provides a link to wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-TextExtracts). Thoughts on that?

[georgebarnick]

Would it be possible for us to turn Brickimedia/Refreshed into a mirror of wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-Refreshed?

[neoncitylights]

After some looking, apparently that's possible (didn't know that till now). Here's the link (which contains 3 different sections): https://help.github.com/articles/duplicating-a-repository/