On Jan 7, 2015 7:23 AM, "drago01" <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Pete Travis <lists@petetravis.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 7, 2015 6:00 AM, "Richard Hughes" <hughsient@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm planning to delete
> >> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rhughes/f20-gnome-3-12/ this
> >> week. The original description always had "This COPR will be updated
> >> until Fedora 21 has been released or until the entropy death of the
> >> universe, whichever happens first." so I don't altogether feel too
> >> guilty about abandoning it. Does anyone have any objections or wants
> >> to volunteer to take it over before I delete the repo?
> >>
> >> Richard
> >> --
> >
> > While recognizing the massive maintenance burden of this COPR, I suspect the
> > majority of objections will come from the enthusiast end user type - you
> > know, the ones that are so eager to try the new thing they read about that
> > they blow right past the description.
>
> Well one might think that those kind of users have updated to F21 to
> get the "new shiny stuff" anyway.
> --

The kind of users that are always driving for the latest shiny thing, yes.  The users that read about some shiny thing on the internet, were interested, and plowed through the instructions without really understanding the implications, no.  I'm just suggesting a little courtesy and further instruction for the latter.

In any case, there *will* be some perplexed folks out there when it gets turned off.  I can share links when I see them if you like :)