crate-removal-procedure.md

Crate removal procedure

status 2019-06-13: this document is incomplete and unvetted. We anticipate to be receiving guidelines from Mozilla Legal in the near future. If this notice is still here on 2019-09-13, please file an issue on this repo to ping for updated status.

If we get a DMCA takedown notice, here's what needs to happen:

Remove relevant version(s) and/or entire crates from crates.io

TODO specific instructions

Remove relevant version(s) and/or entire crates from docs.rs

The docs.rs codebase doesn't currently have a builtin way to remove the already-generated docs, so the current approach when a DMCA arrives is to prevent users accessing the docs at the nginx level. The people who currently have permissions to access the server are:

• rustdoc team:
  • @onur
  • @QuietMisdreavus
• infra team:
  • @Mark-Simulacrum
  • @pietroalbini
• People with 1password access

One of these people needs to log into the docsrs.infra.rust-lang.org machine through the bastion and add this snippet to /home/ubuntu/conf/docs.rs.nginx.conf:

		location /CRATENAME {
			return 410;
		}
		location /crate/CRATENAME {
			return 410;
		}

Then reload the nginx configuration:

$ sudo systemctl reload nginx