From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove ciabot from contrib Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:13:04 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20130926211304.GA19056@thyrsus.com> References: <1380227582-7836-1-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, jrnieder@gmail.com To: Stefan Beller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 26 23:23:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPJ1s-00019d-4O for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:23:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754010Ab3IZVXQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:23:16 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:54502 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753509Ab3IZVXQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:23:16 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 604 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:23:15 EDT Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2EEFB40171; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:13:04 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1380227582-7836-1-git-send-email-stefanbeller@googlemail.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Stefan Beller : > According to > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/212649 > Eric, the original author of ciabot, doesn't want the ciabot > no longer be included in git.git, hence the removal of the > whole directory. Note: I was *not* the original author of the ciabot scripts. I was their maintainer (baton passed to me by the original authors) when the CIA service irrecoverably crashed, and did suggest they be removed. (It is however true that I had rewritten the scripts pretty heavily, enough so to perhaps be considered a coauthor.) Junio demurred based on some representations that a development team not including the CIA author had plans to revive the CIA service. I said "Wait and see, then" - having the ciabot stuff carried in git was doing me no harm, I was just doing what I thought was my duty by suggesting the cleanup. That was almost exactly a year ago now. The CIA revival effort has since sunk without trace. In part, this is because I fielded a much simpler and properly decentralized replacement called "irker" which is now widely enough deployed to have suppressed the demand for CIA. Repository hook scripts for irker ship with the irker distribution. I think enough time has passed that removal would be appropriate. -- Eric S. Raymond