Thanks for tackling this, Paul. I definitely agree that some cleanup is in order, it’s getting a bit outdated and hard to see what is active at first glance. For example just before “Reps” showed up in the sidebar, even though Reps has been decommissioned a while ago, quite confusing. Looking through the categories to keep, it seems to be reasonable.
Let’s double check that this won’t take down Mozilla - Community Portal. Though that integration might already be disabled anyway? I actually don’t remember.
Why is that?
I don’t think I am a fan of just purging content that gives good historical context on contributions in the past. I do acknowledge the difficulties regarding nested levels though. Looking through the categories to be deleted, I think some could easily be kept in an archive. These do not have any sub category and could be moved as-is:
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Community Ops
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Linux
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Meta
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Open Policy & Advocacy
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Archive IAM
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Accessibility
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people.mozilla
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Mixed Reality
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Pontoon
The following categories with subcategories wouldn’t lose much context if they got moved into one category and then be archived:
- Meta
- Mozilla Communities Web Services
- Reps
- WoMoz
Where it gets tricky is “Community Portal” and “Communities”. I see in the current archive there was previously an approach with naming the category including subcategories as well, such as “Community Building - Pathways Working Group”. Not a bad approach per se.
The following categories I couldn’t find, so couldn’t check if they have subcategories (I do wonder why I am not seeing those though..):
- Quality Assurance
- Side View
- B2G OS
- Storage & Syncing
- Connected Devices
- Campus Clubs
- Mozilla Nativo
- Tracking Protection
- Firefox Student Ambassadors
- Mozilla IT
- Speaking
- Participation Systems
- Open Source Student Network
- Lounge
- L10n Women & Non Binary
- Group Registration Pilot
- Community Participation Guidelines
Why is that an issue? It is clearly marked as archive.