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<p>Another possible resource is the Endings Project:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://projectendings.github.io/about/">https://projectendings.github.io/about/</a></p>
<p>Andrew<br>
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Thanks. Will do!<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On January 17, 2019 2:39:14 PM EST, James
Howison <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jhowison@ischool.utexas.edu"><jhowison@ischool.utexas.edu></a> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">There was a great presentation on shutting
down software infrastructure services at the Research
Software engineers Conference in the UK: <br>
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"Be Prepared to Be Unpopular: Tips on Shutting Services
Down"<br>
Catherine Jones: <a
href="https://www.scd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Catherine-Jones.aspx"
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<div>Unfortunately slides not online, but she had some
good ones, perhaps drop her a note?</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>James Howison<br>
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1:24 PM jan <<a href="mailto:dittrich.c.jan@gmail.com"
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<br>
(It seems you work in tech, but since there will be people
reading along <br>
who are not doing tech related stuff, I add some
footnotes)<br>
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As a software-example:<br>
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The web browser Firefox sunsetted the "old" way of
customization for <br>
adding custom functions [1] and replaced it with a system
called <br>
WebExtensions. This was done for security reasons, since
the old system <br>
was hard to harden against attacks [2] and hard to
maintain and relied <br>
on a bricolage-y mode of adding the functions [3].<br>
<br>
This was interesting for several reasons:<br>
<br>
- The existing extension system was rather large, thus
stopping it meant <br>
loosing attractiveness for some users; I assume their
absolute numbers <br>
are not large, but they tend to be vocal, tech savvy and
multipliers who <br>
convince their friends etc.<br>
- It is very hard this in open source projects, since
people feel <br>
strongly about "their" software AND because disabling the
<br>
"do-as-you-like-mode" of extensions can be framed as
"constraining user <br>
freedom", an open source culture anti-value.<br>
- They had a long build up to this, I think going back as
far as 2009 <br>
with several ideas and prototypes to replace their
extension system. At <br>
some point they settled with their current system [4] and
scaffolded a <br>
transition period. Probably one can write a PhD with the
10 year material.<br>
- They actually did it :)<br>
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<br>
Jan<br>
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[1] Enabling 3rd parties like users to plug in new
functionality into <br>
Firefox.<br>
[2] Attacks like going to a webpage and the computer being
infected by a <br>
virus ("drive-by") or people reading your previously
visited webpages etc.<br>
[3] I am no expert on this, but I think it used be based
on changing <br>
existing functionality so any change to existing functions
breaks the <br>
extensions, potentially.<br>
[4] Which is very similar to Chrome’s, googles web browser
which <br>
currently is the major way of web access, much like
Microsoft’s Internet <br>
Explorer was in the late 90s and early 2000s.<br>
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On 16.01.19 21:32, Camille E. Acey wrote:<br>
> Dear Maintainers,<br>
> <br>
> I'm trying to pull together some guidance on
sunsetting/archiving <br>
> projects and thought this group would likely be a
fount of information. <br>
> I look forward to checking out your suggestions!<br>
> <br>
> Thanks in advance,<br>
> Camille<br>
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