Archiving Projects (End-Of-Life)

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a (de-facto) standard way of "end-of-lifing"
projects in an SVN repository, or any suggestions for this from other
users on this list ...

With End-Of-Life I mean there will be no further maintenance on that
project, no more development, no more releases or patches, no more
users. It's really dead. But sometimes one might want to take a look
at the old code, check out its history, maybe even resurrect it, ...
I would like to get those projects out of sight, so it's more clear
what the active projects are. (I'm not talking about "obliterating",
to reclaim disk space or anything like that, quite the contrary: I
want to have them still available, just ... less visible).

I know I could just "svn rm" them, but some of the "project owners"
feel a little bit uneasy about that. They consider it "probable" that
they will need to take another look at them sometime in the future.
And as we all know, it's not so easy to find a deleted
file/directory/project again (to find out what the latest revision was
in which the project still existed).

My repository is currently structured as:

trunk
  \--project1
  \--project2
  \--...
branches
tags

But I think the question is more or less the same if it's structured
in the other standard way (projects/TTB).

Currently I have two options in mind:
- Move the EOL'ed projects to a new directory "archive", a new "root"
directory next to TTB.
- Move the EOL'ed projects to a tag (maybe also in an "archive"
subdirectory, under tags). If it ever needs to be resurrected, it can
be easily copied from that tag.

Thoughts? Other ideas? Pros and cons?

Cheers,

-- 
Johan