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Tool to provide a filterable registry of glTF community projects.
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Remove Google Poly #153

Closed mikeskydev closed 2 years ago

mikeskydev commented 2 years ago

Poly was shut down on June 30, 2021. RIP.

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javagl commented 2 years ago

I also saw that Poly was discontinued while I created https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Project-Explorer/pull/152, but I did not remove the entry: The link is still "valid" insofar that it redirects to some FAQ and further information that might be useful for some people.

The link for the blog post is a 404, indeed, and should therefore be removed. (I'm not sure why I overlooked this during my cleanup pass). I just removed that entry via https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Project-Explorer/pull/152/commits/c5040ac553a812a610026a4e95ad5d9883a27a05

Considering that the other PR should now cover the most important change of this one, I hope that it is OK to merge that PR, and close this one (I'd do that a bit later today or tomorrow)

If you strongly feel that the entry for Poly should be removed, despite the 'FAQ' that is reached via https://poly.google.com/ and that might still be useful in some way, just drop me a note.

But to be honest: We have not yet decided upon any sort of "policy" for handling cases like this. So I'm a bit on the fence on how rigurously we should remove entries depending on their maintenance status. I'll probably bring that up as a group discussion at some point.

mikeskydev commented 2 years ago

Hi! Sorry, I missed your big cleanup PR, perhaps this would have been better left as a comment there instead. Happy to have it tidied up there, though I do feel that the Poly FAQ doesn't provide any more information than this list already provides. Interestingly although the Poly API docs are 404, their API is still intermittently functional as seen on https://beta.icosa.gallery/poly

javagl commented 2 years ago

There is not yet a decision for the broad question about ~"how out-dated a link has to be so that it warrants a complete removal". In the specific case of Poly, I think it's OK to keep the link to the FAQ for now. But it certainly might be removed in one of the next cleanup passes, or whenever someone has a strong opinion about the removal. The blog entry (which indeed was a 404) has been removed, so I think it's OK to close here.