Delete tool 'rcm'
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	Luke081515
	May 25 2016, 4:12 PM

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Please delete the tool at /data/projects/rcm. I already cleaned up the directory, the tool is unused.

There is a project with that name too, but please only delete the tool ;)

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		Resolved		bd808	T133777 Tools that should get archived/deleted (tracking)
		Resolved		bd808	T136216 Delete tool 'rcm'

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Luke081515 created this task.May 25 2016, 4:12 PM

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bd808 removed a project: Tracking-Neverending.May 25 2016, 4:12 PM

valhallasw moved this task from Triage to Backlog on the Toolforge board.May 27 2016, 11:08 AM

Is deleting a tool hard? I'm just wondering, why this takes so much time.

It's nontrivial. Is there a reason to not just leave a redirect in place?

I'm just wondering, because as normal user, there is a button for deleting a tool, (which I can't use), but from outside it looks like that this is simple.

From https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/FAQ#Can_I_delete_a_tool.3F

Tools cannot be deleted. However, you can make an existing web tool inaccessible by shutting down the web service (webservice stop), and you can remove all files from the project directory.

Deleting a tool is not just a matter of deleting the /data/projects/... directory. The TL;DR is that there is no existing tooling to do all of the cleanup that would be needed.

bd808 lowered the priority of this task from Low to Lowest.Mar 20 2018, 5:29 AM

Liuxinyu970226 edited projects, added Projects-Cleanup; removed Cloud-Services.Sep 19 2018, 1:06 AM

Liuxinyu970226 moved this task from Untriaged to Archive tools & others on the Projects-Cleanup board.

Shreyasminocha assigned this task to Methodsolver1782.Dec 16 2018, 7:42 AM

zhuyifei1999 removed Methodsolver1782 as the assignee of this task.Dec 16 2018, 7:59 AM

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bd808 edited projects, added Toolforge (Tools to be deleted); removed Toolforge.Mar 25 2019, 11:15 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2021-12-23T19:32:50Z] <bd808> Marked tool rcm for deletion (T136216)