Abandoned tracks

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It’s sad to see all that effort sitting dormant: there are a bunch of tracks that have lots of exercises implemented but never made it over the finish line.

Maybe someone will be inspired to pick up the torch?

+----------------+----------------------+----------+---------+
| Repo           | LastConfigDate       | Practice | Concept |
+----------------+----------------------+----------+---------+
| shen           | 2021-07-09T07:15:38Z |        1 |       0 |
| 05ab1e         | 2021-07-14T12:30:59Z |        0 |       0 |
| coq            | 2021-07-14T12:31:15Z |        3 |       0 |
| solidity       | 2021-11-02T08:55:58Z |        3 |       0 |
| system-verilog | 2022-02-07T12:21:08Z |        0 |       0 |
| forth          | 2022-10-11T06:37:11Z |        0 |       0 |
| io             | 2022-10-11T06:38:26Z |        0 |       0 |
| ceylon         | 2022-10-13T14:47:11Z |        8 |       0 |
| c3lang         | 2022-12-09T08:06:10Z |        0 |       0 |
| bqn            | 2023-01-24T17:02:13Z |        1 |       0 |
| tasm           | 2023-02-20T11:41:55Z |        0 |       0 |
| seed7          | 2023-03-31T09:14:07Z |        0 |       0 |
| rexx           | 2023-04-04T22:06:35Z |       65 |       0 |
| arm32-assembly | 2023-06-19T15:11:36Z |        2 |       0 |
| qsharp         | 2023-07-20T07:28:10Z |        0 |       0 |
| gnucobol       | 2023-07-20T07:29:56Z |        1 |       0 |
| tact           | 2023-09-06T12:39:22Z |        0 |       0 |
| dataweave      | 2023-10-18T08:01:45Z |        0 |       0 |
| haxe           | 2024-02-03T01:06:14Z |       69 |       2 |
| func           | 2024-02-29T09:52:27Z |       12 |       0 |
| chapel         | 2024-05-03T12:26:22Z |       25 |       0 |
| harbour        | 2024-05-06T23:05:16Z |       21 |       0 |
| phix           | 2024-06-21T12:14:24Z |      112 |       0 |
| j              | 2024-07-22T00:09:56Z |       51 |       0 |
| sed            | 2024-08-31T12:26:59Z |       68 |       0 |
| plsql          | 2025-01-18T13:29:34Z |       11 |       0 |
| dyalog-apl     | 2025-04-17T17:30:57Z |        0 |       0 |
| squirrel       | 2025-06-02T17:59:23Z |        0 |       0 |
| snobol4        | 2026-03-24T13:56:22Z |        6 |       0 |
| jai            | 2026-05-06T14:52:19Z |       48 |       0 |
| nushell        | 2026-08-01T11:27:08Z |       23 |       0 |
| rescript       | 2026-08-07T02:23:05Z |       33 |       0 |
| sather         | 2026-08-21T14:27:29Z |        1 |      26 |
| pony           | 2026-09-24T11:53:59Z |       11 |       1 |
| risc-v         | 2026-09-26T20:48:02Z |       77 |       0 |
| gdscript       | 2026-09-27T17:43:48Z |       31 |       0 |
+----------------+----------------------+----------+---------+

Notes:

  • These are non-archived public exercism repos where the config.json contains "active": false
  • “LastConfigDate” is the most recent commit date of the track’s config.json
2

I’d suggest any wip track with fewer than 20 exercises and older than 1 year can be archived.

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Related thread: https://forum.exercism.org/t/archiving-old-track-repos-not-launched-with-no-recent-progress/64549

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In case anybody thinks 20 is too high (as I did, very briefly), only 2 old tracks are in the 10 <= n < 20 range:

  • func is abandoned and unmaintained as a blockchain language (replace by Tolk, apparently).
  • plsql is Oracle-proprietary.
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5

That’s an interesting point: how many of the abandoned wip tracks are for dead languages.

And it was once an active track that has been inactivated and should be archived.

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6

I assume this means no config.json activity in the past year. The Pony track is young at heart.

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7

yes that’s what I mean

8

PL/SQL is a once-live track that was deactivated like ClojureScript. ClojureScript’s repos were archived after deactivation so PL/SQL should be as well. I think that can occur regardless of the ongoing discussion of abandoned WIP tracks because it’s a very different situation.

9

As a first step, how about I disable dependabot for all the pending-archived tracks? They do produce a lot of noise.

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10

Yes please

11

disabled dependabot for coq, io, phix, plsql, snobol4

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