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Introduction

As part of the effort to keep my github account clean, in 2015 I moved all non-original repositories to a separate organisation named potherca-contrib. This brought my repository count back down to a manageable level.

Since then, my repository count has been steadily growing. To bring those numbers back down again, I decided to move all non-relevant repositories to another separate organisation.

The first question was: how to name that organisation?

Creating a longlist

When looking for words used to describe projects that are no longer being attended to, I came across a question on the english StackExchange site that asked the same. There were some useful suggestions (and some less useable ones like "zombified") but only a few of them.

Some more searching lead to the list of moved ports in the FreeBSD Ports Collection. Each entry states a reason for why a port has been moved. I like "Developer's focus have moved elsewhere" best.

I didn't read all 9000+ lines but random sampling added more entries to the list.

I finished of by running a few word through a thesaurus.

This lead to the following list:

• Abandoned
• Cancelled
• Ceased
• Closed
• Deactivated
• Dead
• Decommissioned
• Defunct
• Deprecated
• Deserted
• Discarded
• Discontinued
• Dropped
• End-of-life
• Expired
• Forsaken
• Given up
• Inactive
• Legacy
• Neglected
• No longer active
• No longer available
• No longer developed
• No longer functional
• No longer in use
• No longer maintained
• No longer needed
• No longer supported
• No longer under development
• Obsolete
• Old
• Outdated
• Redundant
• Rejected
• Removed
• Resigned
• Retired
• Stalled
• Sunsetted
• Superseded
• Terminated
• Unmaintained
• Unsupported
• Unused
• Vacated

Creating a shortlist

Grouping words together by meaning (more or less) with the word that appealed to me most in the lead, I brough the forty-plus words down to the following list of nine:

• Abandoned (Deserted / Forsaken)
• Ceased (Dead / End-of-life / Terminated)
• Deprecated (Closed / Deactivated / Defunct)
• Discontinued (Cancelled / Discarded/ Dropped)
• Expired (Decommissioned / Retired / Resigned / Sunsetted / Vacated)
• Inactive (Given up / Neglected / Stalled)
• Legacy (Removed / Unused)
• Obsolete (Old / Outdated / Redundant / Rejected)
• Unmaintained (Unsupported)

Various words were too case-specific, generic or vague for my taste.

Removing those words further shortened the list to these five:

• Abandoned
• Deprecated
• Inactive
• Legacy
• Unmaintained

Settling on a name

After some deliberation I settled on Abandoned.

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Now... On to the task of moving repositories over...