On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:18:32AM -0500, 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?
Before we remove contrib/, we should check if we want to keep any
of the scripts in there, and if so, move them into the tools/ directory.
Otherwise, +1
Stefan
Received on 2009-04-06 17:47:20 CEST