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by stewbrew
3322 days ago
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I like the idea of creating a memorial blog post. I don't understand though why you mention "open source" as a method. Although some people do this, I don't think github etc. should become graveyards of abandoned projects. Open source should rather be a method of developing a project. (When you're done with it put a note at the top of your README.) WRT to (digital) archiving etc., I'd like to take a slightly different take on that topic: Every project is of limited interest. Sooner or later your interest will wane. Let's organize projects (or rather their digital artifacts) in a way that incorporates this fact. E.g. put all files related to project X, you created this year, into "Projects/2017/X" and create a symlink to that folder in "Projects/now", where you keep your references to projects that you're working on now. No need to archive anything later on. Just remove the symlink. |
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Ending a project by releasing it as open source is a reasonable form of "closure" for the developer. For future viewers, a reasonably well-documented-but-abandoned project still offers insights for future developers to draw from.