Arvados

Bryan,

Remember that Arvados generally wants to keep data somewhere, for reproducibility. Normally, when you delete something from a Project, what happens is that it gets moved to the Home Project—the same place it would be if you never put it in a Project to begin with. This is true even when you try to remove something from the Home Project: it gets reassigned to… the Home Project. That's why you're seeing the behavior you do.

Definitely I understand that this is confusing and we should do something about it, but it's not immediately obvious what the right answer here is. Do these projects have data in them? Would you be okay with that data moving back to your Home Project? I assume you want the Projects to go away completely so they don't clutter your Project pulldown, etc.?

If they're empty, one workaround is to rename and reuse them next time you need to start a Project. ;)

Thanks.

From discussion with Tom:

• We should actually delete empty projects.
• Ideally, we don't render the delete button for non-empty projects.
• If that's too hard, we should at least return an error when someone tries to delete a non-empty project, so the Ajax wipe animation doesn't happen.

Re-opening. The current behavior is just plain silly.

Have been able to trash whole projects for a while.