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Woah, that tweet led me to: "GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they've been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier." Which
by jrochkind1 4y ago
Woah, that tweet led me to:
"GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they've been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier."
Which I hadn't heard. That's.... something.
- Etheryte 4y agoIf I'm not mistaken they rolled this idea back real quick once it leaked and everyone got mad.
- ge96 4y agoI may not leave a legacy but I'll know that a TODO app I wrote is in an arctic vault.
- jrochkind1 4y agoIt looks like they only announced it yesterday... and yes have already rolled it back? But for... "Now makes vague pledge to shove inactive repos into slow object storage." Not sure what that means. If the project isn't still available at the web and git URL it always was, that's a problem for open source. https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/gitlab_reverses_deletion_policy/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/gitlab_reverses_delet... It's kind of shocking to me that they didn't realize how it would upset people, makes me think they are a bit disconnected. OK, here's the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350180
- Beltalowda 4y ago> It looks like they only announced it yesterday... and yes have already rolled it back? They didn't really "announce" it, the plans were leaked.