hum, what defines "activity"?
because I can set a CRON job to create tags artificially or pushing empty commits and "bon appétit" 😈
More seriously, the costs are probably too high and they did not anticipate that. From the Ux perspective, it's kinda bad to downgrade the service, but I guess they don't have the financial power of GitHub/Microsoft.
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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.
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hum, what defines "activity"?
because I can set a CRON job to create tags artificially or pushing empty commits and "bon appétit" 😈
More seriously, the costs are probably too high and they did not anticipate that. From the Ux perspective, it's kinda bad to downgrade the service, but I guess they don't have the financial power of GitHub/Microsoft.
It's right there in the linked article:
A tiny shell script called by a simple cron job should suffice
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.