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please delete unused "Amanda" Launchpad project

Asked by Nathan Stratton Treadway

I recently discovered the existence of the "Amanda" project on Launchpad:
  https://launchpad.net/amanda
... but noticed that it is years out of date and doesn't appear to have actually ever been used for anything.

I contacted Jamie Wilkinson (the registrant for the project) to suggested he might want to delete it, to avoid confusion -- and he replied, saying that he agreed the project should be deleted but that he didn't know how to do so himself.

So, he/we are requesting that it be deleted by a Launchpad admin.

Thanks.

Nathan

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Nathan Stratton Treadway (nathanst) said : 		#1

Or, if https://launchpad.net/amanda actually needs to continue to exist because it's used as the Upstream Connection for the "amanda" package in Ubuntu, then presumably the ownership of that project should be tranfered to "Registry Administrators"?

(And in that case, is there any way to cause a re-sync to happen between the Launchpad project and the Sourceforge upstream?)

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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) said : 		#2

I've contacted the maintainer and asked them to confirm.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#3

Launchpad cannot delete projects, they can be deactivated, but in this specific case Ubuntu is using the project. Ubuntu wants to track amanda code updates and bugs. The project can be owned by anyone, The goal of the Registry Administrators is to not own any projects because we to no do day to day maintenance.

I visited <https://code.launchpad.net/+code-imports/+new> and registered a new import of the svn repo. Anyone can do this. Only the Launchpad amanda maintainer or driver can register a series and set its branch to the new import: <https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/amanda/trunk>. The new import will sync every day so long as there are no connection issues.

Project registrants are powerless. They are an historical fact. paddy-zmanda (paddy) is the Launchpad maintainer. Some one needs to contain the maintainer and ask for the new branch to be setup with a new series.

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Nathan Stratton Treadway (nathanst) said : 		#4

> https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/amanda/trunk. The new import
> will sync every day so long as there are no connection issues.

For what it's worth, it appears that the import has failed each of the three times it has run...

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#5

Oops. My fault. I did not type the complete URL in. The branch is importing now.

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