Merge pull request #1098 from prototaxites/deprecate_scw

Deprecate scw config

Author: prototaxites

conf/scw.config

@@ -1,7 +1,22 @@
 params {
-    config_profile_description = 'Super Computing Wales'
-    config_profile_contact     = 'j.downie@bangor.ac.uk'
+    config_profile_description = 'DEPRECATED: Super Computing Wales'
+    config_profile_contact     = '<no maintainer>'
     config_profile_url         = 'https://supercomputing.wales/'
+
+    warning_message = {
+        System.out.println("WARNING: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
+        System.out.println("WARNING:")
+        System.out.println("WARNING: THE SCW CONFIG IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED.")
+        System.out.println("WARNING:")
+        System.out.println("WARNING: THIS CONFIG WILL BE DEPRECATED BY THE END OF JUNE 2026 IF NO NEW MAINTAINER IS FOUND.")
+        System.out.println("WARNING:")
+        System.out.println("WARNING: PLEASE GET IN CONTACT WITH THE NF-CORE COMMUNITY VIA SLACK  (#configs CHANNEL) OR EMAIL (https://nf-co.re/join) ASAP")
+        System.out.println("WARNING: TO ALLOW CONTINUED USE OF YOUR CONFIG WITH NF-CORE PIPELINES")
+        System.out.println("WARNING:")
+        System.out.println("WARNING: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!")
+    }.call()
+}
+
 }
 singularity {
     enabled    = true

docs/scw.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # nf-core/configs: Super Computing Wales configuration
 
+> **Warning:** This config is unmaintained and will be removed in at the end of June 2026 if no new maintainer is found.
+> If you use this config, please consider becoming a maintainer, or contact your sysadmin team to see if they will
+> take on the burden.
+
 A base configuration file for running nf-core pipelines has been set up for use with [Super Computing Wales](https://supercomputing.wales) (SCW). To use this profile, the pipeline can be run with the option `-profile scw`, which will download the [`scw.config`](../conf/scw.config) config file. This config file by default runs pipelines using Singularity, and runs all jobs on the _htc_ partition.
 
 To run an nf-core pipeline, you will first need to activate Nextflow. You can do this with the following command: