637065 - End of Life Plan - Bespin Plugin Gallery

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: website-archive.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

Let's determine what the end of life plan will be for the Bespin Plugin Gallery.

* When will we retire / shutdown the website?
* Where will website visitors be redirected?
* What will be done with all of the data that we've collected
(especially the user information)?

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Semi-related: What ever happened to the old jetpack gallery? There was a ton of useful code in there which is now just gone (or so it seems).

Comment 2

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

The Jetpack Gallery was retired, and Bespin Gallery was based off the Jetpack Gallery code.  

Here's the blog post for the Jetpack Gallery:
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2010/08/03/the-jetpack-gallerys-final-flight/

The code is in subversion at:
http://svn.mozilla.org/projects/jetpack/

Comment 3

[Kevin Dangoor]

I suggest that we give 6 months from the date of the Skywriter/Ace merge announcement:

http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/2011/01/18/mozilla-skywriter-has-been-merged-into-ace/

Which would put decommissioning around July 18.

I suggest redirecting to that blog post, since it provides the clearest picture as to why things were shut down.

Finally, I think the data can just be deleted. The service was never truly production and in 6 months I'm guessing that users of Bespin/Skywriter will have made the transition to Ace.

Thoughts on that?

Comment 4

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

Kevin all of that sounds good.  Redirecting visitors to the blog post makes the most sense.  And it does seem like we can just drop the database - I do assume that most of the plugins will have been rewritten by that time or can be considered invalid/abandoned.

I'll make a note to being the retirement process in July.  Thanks!

Comment 5

[Kevin Dangoor]

It may be a good idea to put a warning message at the top of the site now, so that people have ample awareness that the site is going away.

Comment 6

[Chris More [:cmore]]

We are now 6 months past when the blog post was written and it should be ready to completely retire. Is there anyone else we need to get approval from before I submit an IT bug to delete the data, delete the code, and redirect to the blog post?

Thanks!

Comment 7

[Kevin Dangoor]

No, I think we're fine. Go for it!

Comment 8

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Website retired and redirected to blog!