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Hopefully, by documenting a bit more at the time of archiving a project, it will serve as helpful context for those people who find (or come back) to the project in the future. \n\nThis GitHub repository contains a [markdown TEMPLATE](TEMPLATE.md) that you can use when archiving your own projects. \n\nThis approach of creating an archiving checklist was originally described by James Read in [this blog post](https://blog.jread.com/how-to-properly-archive-a-project-48ddbd0208f8). This GitHub repository came afterwards, with a template, as it's a bit more usable for GitHub developers (and easier to contribute) than copying from the blog post. \n\n## Quick high level sneak-peak\n\n- **T — Technologists**: Did enough people contribute to maintaining this project? Developers, Architects, Security, Operations?\n- **U — Users**: Did this project have enough active users?\n- **R — Requirements**: Was this project still doing what we set out for it to do?\n- **T — Technology**: Are there any unsustainable technologies behind this project? \n- **L — Learning**: Was anything being learned by maintaining this project? \n- **E — Ecosystem**: Is there now an alternative to writing this project?\n- **S — Salvage**: Can anything useful be salvaged from this project?\n\nA full [markdown TEMPLATE](TEMPLATE.md) contains many more prompts under this same structure. \n\n## Detailed Example - see the template\n\n[TEMPLATE](TEMPLATE.md) \n\n## Usage\n\nIt is hoped that people who have found this useful will add links to their documented TURTLES checklist in the [USAGE](USAGE.md) file. \n\n## Dependencies\n\nThe TURTLES checklist is just documentation - it is nothing more than a text file. However, if you want some sort of reference that you are using (or have used) the TURTLES checklist, for example as a reminder to developers, or to activate the GitHub \"used by\" feature, then you can depend against one of the dummy dependencies - go.mod for Golang, pom.xml for Java/Maven, etc. \n\nThis is of course entirely optional.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fjamesread%2Fturtles","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fjamesread%2Fturtles","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fjamesread%2Fturtles/lists"}