Labs/EndOfProject

When a Mozilla Labs project is concluded, the project investigator should make sure to take the following actions:

1. Write a project report. It should include:

What the initial goal of the project was
What questions the project was intended to answer, and what questions came up during the project
What techniques were employed to answer the questions
If a prototype was built, how the prototype was built, and what was learned during that process
What answers were found to the questions, and what question remain
Why the project was concluded
Where the artifacts produced by the project are stored, and how to reach the people that worked on it
If the project was concluded because of a surprising result, make sure to highlight that.

Make sure the report is dated and includes fully qualified links to the project's files; we want these to still be useful in ten years.

2. The website should be updated and cleaned up to an archival level of quality.

Make sure that the project is moved to the Archive section (both on labs.mozilla.com and the wiki).
Make sure that the URLs "labs.mozilla.com/<projectname>" and "wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/<projectname>" resolve to useful pages. The labs page should be a bit more summary-ish than the wiki page.
Make sure the web page makes clear that the project has concluded, and links to (or includes) the project report.
Make sure that any open source pieces of the project are easily discoverable from the web page.
Make sure that the language about the project on the website and the wiki is in the past tense: exciting, community-involving language isn't helpful if the project has been shut down.
Make sure there are no links to servers that have become defunct.

Current issues:

Old projects use the labs.mozilla.com/projects/<projectname> syntax. Hard to change?

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