Code review comment for lp:~edwin-grubbs/launchpad/bug-553384-deactivated-project-oops

Hello Edwin, et al.

Regarding who and how projects are deactivated...

Users cannot deactivate a project, reviewers and admins can. The rule of not deactivating a linked project seemed obvious 6 months ago and I have always deleted bad packaging links /before/ deactivating a project. It is clear from the oops this was not obvious to everyone so I reported a bug to stop other reviewers from doing the wrong thing.

I do not deactivate projects with legitimate links to Ubuntu. This has frustrated two users who think their desires outweigh the community. We *will not* deactivate any linked project because someone else will just have it reactivated.

This issue relates to series deletion. Users cannot delete a series that is linked to a package. The user can delete the packaing links. In the case of the sugar project, the user recreated links for the correct series.