{"id":28216,"date":"2017-11-13T21:18:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28216"},"modified":"2017-11-13T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:18:18","slug":"github-archiving-repositories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/13\/github-archiving-repositories\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub : Archiving Repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Last week, GitHub introduced archiving of repositories<\/a>. While it might not seem like a news worthy feature, it is quite useful for both individuals and teams.\u00a0 Two particular scenarios that I find helpful are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Indicate that a particular repository \/ project is obsolete and is not maintained.\u00a0 This should save quite a bit of time for people who randomly end up on a project’s page, via searching GitHub\/Packagist\/Google or somewhere else.<\/li>\n
  2. Provide an insight into how many of the person’s or team’s profile are active.\u00a0 It’s often difficult to estimate at a first glance, when looking at a GitHub profile of a person or a team who have been developing for a long time, how many of their projects are actually actively maintained.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    Last week, GitHub introduced archiving of repositories. While it might not seem like a news worthy feature, it is quite useful for both individuals and teams.\u00a0 Two particular scenarios that I find helpful are: Indicate that a particular repository \/ project is obsolete and is not maintained.\u00a0 This should save quite a bit of time … Continue reading GitHub : Archiving Repositories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"GitHub : Archiving Repositories #WebDev #GitHub #collaboration","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[3179,2809,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-collaboration","tag-github","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t