Re: [boost] [GitHub] Can boostorg/do-not-use be safely deleted?

On 2017-07-29 21:47, Gottlob Frege via Boost wrote:

On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Steven Watanabe via Boost wrote:

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AMDG

On 07/29/2017 10:48 AM, Zach Laine via Boost wrote:

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On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Louis Dionne via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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We have this repository: https://github.com/boostorg/do-not-use. The description says

Permissions experiments; will disappear without notice.

I'd like to confirm that this can safely be removed before I go do it.

Can you make it private for a month or two, and then delete it? Even if no-one objects on-list, that might not mean much, since many people read the list only sporadically. Making sure that scripts or whatever have a chance to fail seems like more robust to me.

In this case, I would say that since it says that it will disappear without notice, its perfectly fine to do just that.

In Christ, Steven Watanabe

But it says *will* disappear without notice, not *may* disappear without notice.

Now that Louis has given notice, it obviously can't disappear.

I suggest he first revoke the notice, then delete it. Or possibly the logic of the above is enough to in effect revoke the notice, thus it can disappear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox

Tony

ROFL But then again, Louis just asked about it. Not sure if that counts as giving notice :-)