Close tickets of deprecated plugins

[figaro]

Batch-close tickets of deprecated plugins, which should amount to between 20 and 30 tickets. Possibly to coincide with the release of Trac 1.2.

[Ryan J Ollos]

I've closed the tickets for a number of plugins already, including DateFieldPlugin and TicketCreationStatusPlugin. Which have I overlooked?

[figaro]

It cannot be done mechanically based on a filter such as keywords contain 'deprecated'? This batch-closing could then be performed as part of Checklist of things to do for a release.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Currently there are no tickets with keyword "deprecated", however it sounds fine to me if you plan to mark tickets with that keyword.

[figaro]

I was thinking of something more mechanical, such as:

UPDATE tickets
SET status = 'closed'
WHERE component = (SELECT component FROM trachacks WHERE keyword LIKE 'deprecated')

Once we are comfortable with the result, we could add it to the release activities schedule.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to figaro:

Once we are comfortable with the result, we could add it to the release activities schedule.

I want to keep the activities of trac-hacks and trac decoupled because it won't always be the same person managing each. At least, I hope that someone will eventually take a dedicated interest in helping to manage the infrastructure.

We could however have some steps for trac-hacks.org that are documented on trac-hacks.org and occur with every major release of Trac.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Eventually #7511 can be implemented and we can delete plugins that are obsolete. I've started tagging such plugins with pending-deletion:

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[Ryan J Ollos]

#7511 is implemented now. A few more things could be done to make a mass deletion of obsolete plugin safer:

• Preserve wiki page history when page is deleted (​trac:#9222).
• Version control the SVN authz file.
• Add a table in the database for storing information about hacks that includes creation time and deletion time.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Projects that were irrelevant since Trac 0.10 have been removed. The tags 0.8 and 0.9 have been removed. Removing Trac 0.10 plugins should eventually happen, but will require a more careful review.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to rjollos:

• Version control the SVN authz file.

SVN 1.8 supports storing the authz file ​in the repository. Eventually I'll look into that.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Nothing else to do here as far as I can tell. comment:7 has some action items for the future, which I'm tracking in my own todo list.