Talk:The Halls Of The Dead
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Is there a general guideline for how long a project should go without an update for it to be considered "dead"? As a rule, a project listing page such as Gnutella is most useful when it shows only functional, actively maintained software; on the other hand, it is possible to be over-zealous in moving projects to the Halls of the Dead. Is a project not updated in a year dead? What about one idle for six months? and so forth.
- Open source projects are always like that: they seem to lose their momentum for a while and then suddenly someone else takes over the project. I'd probably say about 6 months inactivity is long enough to call it dead. In "Internet time" thats like 2 years. If it comes back after that, that's a new product not a return from the grave. Webfork
Yes, I renamed it from "Hall of the Dead" to pluralize it, and added "The" because it sounds cool. I suspect there will be more than one hall, for each of the cateogories being tracked (p2p clients, websites, etc).
-- Sy
What about websites and projects such as Firefly or SixDegrees? They were like early versions of Friendster or even Meetup. They were peer to peer but not decentralized or file sharing. Then there is the failed payment systems FirstVirtual, Cybercoin, Millicent, Digicash, Internet Dollar and Pay2See. - ABliss
- Hrm.. I suppose this section is dedicated to any dead project now, not just p2p stuff. -- Sy
