We need a process to unpromulgate charms.

[Charles Butler]

I think to a degree the unmaintained charms workflow applies here.

Contact the list to give the community an opportunity to voice any opinions
about it before it just gets removed from the store, then ultimately - we
remove the charm if there is not a compelling case for keeping it there.

With that being said, where it goes is still a mystery for me about what to
do. I like the idea of moving it to inactive-charmers, and tagging it with
'deprecated' - but i feel like there should be some kind of an audit
history here so anyone that may have this running in their infrastructure,
can track down what happened to it if they miss the mailing list contact.




On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Matt Bruzek <matthew.bruzek at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The Juju Ecosystem team is working on charm testing and it occurred to us
> that we need a process for unpromulgation of charms.
>
> Charles Butler came up with the process for when charms are broken or no
> longer supported.  That document can be found here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1k8IBaLmOTpgOJQHv54BAnRfQLiC4hQ35lAm_3prlHwA/edit
>
> What I would like to discuss here is:  When a charm is no longer needed.
> For example the tomcat6 and tomcat7 charms are completely superseded by the
> new tomcat charm.  We want to unpromulgate them so Juju users use the new
> tomcat charm.
>
> The question I bring to you today is:
>
> *What should the process be when we unpromulgate a charm?*
>
> I see a few options:
>
> 1) Unpromulgate the charm and keep it in the ~charmers branch in
> launchpad.
> 2) Unpromulgate the charm and move it to another personal name space
> (something like ~unmaintained).
> 3 Unpromulgate the charm and delete the branch?
>
> There are problems with each approach and therefore I wanted to present
> this to the community.
>
> The problem with #1 is that the ~charmers branch is our official branch
> and I am not sure we want to keep unmaintained charms in there when they
> are no longer maintained or the charm is no longer not recommended.
>
> Please let us know what your opinion and reasoning is for what to do with
> unpromulgated charms.
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
>    - Matt Bruzek <matthew.bruzek at canonical.com>
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