In our internal deployment there are some projects which are basically historical however still need to be present to perform searches. For these, it does not make any sense to index them since they no longer receive any changes. The indexing only incurs unnecessary I/O and CPU load. Thus, having a "archived" flag that would avoid indexing for these projects/repositories. Something similar to what is being proposed for history in #1728.
In our internal deployment there are some projects which are basically historical however still need to be present to perform searches. For these, it does not make any sense to index them since they no longer receive any changes. The indexing only incurs unnecessary I/O and CPU load. Thus, having a "archived" flag that would avoid indexing for these projects/repositories. Something similar to what is being proposed for history in #1728.