Re: [RFC] Remove contrib/ from our repo

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:

> I propose that we remove the contrib/ directory from our repository,
> and from our distribution. A couple of reasons for this:
>
> * Some of the scripts have licensing issues.

There were at least two requests to fix them. So I guess the scripts which
still have license issues should be deleted.

> * We don't even keep the webpage claiming to describe these tools up-
> to-date.

I wanted to take a look at that before 1.6 is released but forgot it :(

> * We don't claim to support them, yet they are hosted and shipped by
> the project. (In the early days of the project, it was useful to give
> these unsupported scripts a place to host and a way to ship. With the
> ubiquity of Subversion, and the availability of external hosting
> sites, we should get out the business of providing project hosting for
> these scripts.)

I haven't seen bug reports or complaints about those scripts. That either
means noone uses them or they just work. One of those that works (at least
with 1.4) and that I still use is svnmirror.sh (which is similar to
svnsync but doesn't curse r0 of the destination repos).

So what's the cost if we keep them?

There are probably some which can be deleted. F.ex.
server-side/backup-recipe.sh seems to not be very useful.
We should look at each one and decide what to do with it.

Just my 2 cents.

Martin

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Received on 2009-04-07 04:04:28 CEST