On May 7, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 08:05:13AM -0500,
> kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com wrote:
>> "Hyrum K. Wright" <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org> wrote on 05/07/2009
>> 07:22:17 AM:
>>>> I am planning to merge 'svnraisetc' branch to trunk. This merge
>>>> will
>>>> add a tool
>>>> "svnraisetreeconflict" to "contrib/client-side/
>>>> svnraisetreeconflict"
>>>> nothing
>>>> more than that.
>>>>
>>>> For an explanation of what this tool does and other discussions,
>>>> please have a
>>>> look at this thread -
>>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?
>>> dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=103756
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has any reservations on the above, please let me know.
>>>
>>> Since contrib/ will be disappearing shortly, I'm a bit befuddled
>>> as to
>>> why this branch even exists at all? Either it should be made a part
>>> of tools, with agreed-upon support from the Subversion community, or
>>> I'd recommend hosting it somewhere else.
>> I'm still a little concerned users will get the wrong impression
>> when told "Thanks for the contrib, but go find somewhere else to
>> put it."
>> (I know I would have lost interest in helping...)
>
> I was not under the impression that we would simply discard all of
> contrib as it exists today, and be telling contributors to go away.
>
> Rather, I though we'd audit contrib for things that have a license
> which
> allows distribution and which are useful and maintainable, and merge
> all
> of that stuff into tools/, and remove the rest.
>
> That was my impression anyway. Is this correct?
contrib/ can never just "go away". It's in the repo, we've got
version control, and people can just use @37634 instead of the implied
@HEAD when accessing it. We could 'svn rm ^/trunk/contrib' today, and
then resurrect stuff as it get's audited.
>
>> Therefore, I suggest creating a "Contrib manager" role that
>> coordinates
>> collecting these types of contributions into a common location
>> (probably
>> just another tigris project. e.g. svn-contrib)
>
> Yes, we need someone to look through contrib, and make a summarised
> list of what tools there are, what their licenses are, what their
> purpose is, and possibly an estimate on each script's usefullness,
> whether it serves its purpose well enough to be worth maintaining,
> whether there already is an active maintainer for it, and whether
> there are replacements we could point people at for useful things
> that will go away. E.g. svn_load_dirs.pl could be replaced by svn-load
> which already is an externally maintained script.
Something like this would be useful, but not mandatory for removing
contrib/ from HEAD.
-Hyrum
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