[tor-bugs] #29304 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: Manage the lifecycle of systems

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#29304: Manage the lifecycle of systems
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     Reporter:  qbi                                  |      Owner:  tpa
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    Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |    Version:
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 During the sysadmin meeting in Brussels we discussed our infrastructure.
 Systems are managed by service admins/owners. They sometimes disappear or
 services become irrelevant. This means we have systems without proper
 owner which are rotting over time.

 To better handle such systems we decided that systems like
 `$host.torproject.org`  should have an expiration date which is initially
 one or two years in the future. When the expiration date is near the
 service owner receives an email informing about the possible shutdown and
 the means to prevent it (write an email answer to tpa). If the mail is
 answered the expiration date will be prolonged. If not, the system will be
 deactivated. The deactivation can easily be revoked. However after some
 more time without any feedback the host will be decommissioned.

 This ticket is to track the several steps for implementing this new
 policy.

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