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.
>
> * We don't even keep the webpage claiming to describe these tools up-
> to-date.
>
> * 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.)
>
> Thoughts?
In general, +1.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, it's trivial to throw up a Blogger blog
or somesuch for folks to share their scripts with the world. We are no
longer in a position where we need to boost Subversion's adoption and
acceptance by hosting the myriad tools and toys related to it. However, I
think we should cruise through the contrib/ area first looking for items we
might want to "adopt" into tools/ and support officially before whacking the
whole tree.
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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