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GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

Richard 12 Silver badge

Re: A year seems a bit too low... Three years maybe?

No, they're projects, not accounts.

And they're not dormant. There are several libraries and utilities we use commercially that have not changed for several years - because they don't need to.

Obviously we have our own mirrors, but there will be plenty of open-source (free!) projects that also rely on libraries or utilities that only need changes every two or three years. Or longer.

And they will break if those dependencies vanish.

For example, the "official" Python "artifactory" library on pypi was last updated in 2018, and the last issue or PR was in April 2021.

There are alternatives, perhaps even better ones, but it works and plenty of projects rely on that bit of Python code.

If it was hosted on Gitlab, they'd be about to kill it.

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