Comment 12 for bug 38349

Since this bug was reopened, I have made it the master the the bug we were tracking the issue.

We can allow project maintainers to deactivate projects when the project has a method that checks that no community is using a project. Project owners and registry admins would see the link to deactivate the project.

We have not formalised the rules to create the method. While I see the link to deactivate a project, I sometimes cannot because there are a few sanity checks that ensure a community is not disenfranchised.

If the project is linked to an Ubuntu package we cannot disable the project. Owners can gift the project to someone else. Some owner have removed the packaging links, but the project was later reactivated at the request of Ubuntu community members.

If the project has releases that have been downloaded (end-users), the project can be deactivated, but we have gotten requests to reactivate the project by end-users.

This issue is related to bug 106501, where we know users cannot deactivate a project, and there are 1000s of abandoned projects cluttering Lp's pages.