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Bug 417642

Summary: Page "Archived Eclipse Projects" should state the reason for archiving
Product: Community Reporter: Oliver Kopp <oliver.kopp>
Component: WebsiteAssignee: Martin Lowe <martin.lowe>
Status: CLOSED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: chris.guindon, oliver.kopp, wayne.beaton
Version: unspecified   
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Description Oliver Kopp CLA 2013-09-19 16:13:04 EDT 
The page "http://www.eclipse.org/archived/" shows a list of archived projects. At the development process (http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process_2011.php#6_2_6_Archived), it is stated that "there must be good reasons to have moved a Project to the Archives". As the "Archived Eclipse Projects" page is the central page for archived projects, I would have expected links to the decision process to archive each project. Or at least a sentence giving the reasons.

It would also be nice to see, what the original goal of the project was. Perhaps a link to the project proposal page would do the trick?

The "Archived Technology Project" page (http://www.eclipse.org/technology/archived.php) gives an example how such an overview might look like. For instance the "Pollinate" project or "WSVT (Web Service Validation Tools)" and "XSD".
Comment 1 Wayne Beaton CLA 2017-03-27 20:06:12 EDT 
This is related to Bug 417634. Some linkage between the archived project record and the actual archive would be nice.
Comment 2 Frederic Gurr CLA 2021-12-23 06:31:52 EST 
This issue has been migrated to https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/163.