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Discussion on: GitLab will be deleting dormant projects

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Paweł Świątkowski

It's right there in the linked article:

A single comment, commit, or new issue posted to a project during a 12-month period will be sufficient to keep the project alive.

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Riccardo Bernardini

A tiny shell script called by a simple cron job should suffice

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crayoncode

Looks like an okay definition of active. Although deleting really seems a little drastic. I guess they might also test the waters and see how the community reacts. Even if they increase the time period for dormant projects they still might end up saving a significant share of their hosting cost.