How to drop a project
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Projects are often dropped due to inactivity. We should not keep projects where translations do not reach end users. See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228072
Removal checklist
- Inform the maintainers (if possible)
- Update in the translatewiki repo:
- Remove from repoconfig.yaml
- Remove from TranslateSettings.php (keep namespace!)
- Remove group yaml and associated validators if any
- Remove from aggregate groups if any
- Update in the wiki:
- Remove from Group descriptions
- Update Translating:X to say it is discontinued by adding
{{Discontinued project}}on top of the page. - Update Category:X to change category from Category:Supported projects to Category:Formerly supported projects
- Mention the removal in News
- Update Template:User X to say "helped translating" instead of "helps translating"
- Update Category:X translators to change category from Category:Users by project to Category:Users by former project
- Update Category:Support requests for X to change category from Category:Support requests to Category:Support requests for formerly supported projects