On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:44 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> 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.
Sure, but let's just make sure that we've got a genuine reason for
adopting and supporting these tools (and that the license terms are
sustainable) before doing so.
-Hyrum
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Received on 2009-04-06 17:46:45 CEST