From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Beller Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 25/25] contrib: remove 'mw-to-git' Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 14:30:41 +0200 Message-ID: <536CCA71.8010300@gmail.com> References: <1399597116-1851-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1399597116-1851-26-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <536cb51c3f348_6b2dde7308b1@nysa.notmuch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , =?UTF-8?B?Q8OpbGVzdGluIE1hdHRl?= , Benoit Person To: Felipe Contreras , Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 09 14:30:47 2014 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 1Wijws-0004Jx-Tb for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 09 May 2014 14:30:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754063AbaEIMam (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2014 08:30:42 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:35259 "EHLO mail-ee0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752606AbaEIMam (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2014 08:30:42 -0400 Received: by mail-ee0-f46.google.com with SMTP id t10so2582854eei.5 for ; Fri, 09 May 2014 05:30:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fdJWeRCYmJLeDdOnZ3GCGJaO7ZlLHZQZl3vR8B0mhcw=; b=iydhiFjgC0uxLnr8aH1HCtVZTwmEAgddmhXqdjl9XG2Y0RDpf8mhCgBIHlFVxLXIzQ 7aQCSpOzBvdlvKNBvdZMJ9qnuzBEUrrzb64C9hx9R5ztTTNGZrsWb9TYDjCRvRXs16b5 Ag7f1VOmZbLnyQNmeZYRgVwSyK2tUWvsFs4NJWW4jhhPYZ85teLZl5qwBrcB661AkN5N Y4ePPdwL2WVDglAO3dkv2R4Dem50eYkcMwembv/jswQNKAytrgoX3DMpvdOG0c3vnNg5 9HUFTULx1q4HsMFMXWx/WSE5q8wPt5raOZunUmmeRlG4pvX3UjzuxMKQ7vyKwPB7fZyQ EZlw== X-Received: by 10.15.24.201 with SMTP id j49mr12932154eeu.99.1399638640878; Fri, 09 May 2014 05:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.7] (ip-178-200-168-156.unitymediagroup.de. [178.200.168.156]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id cj41sm11118115eeb.34.2014.05.09.05.30.39 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 09 May 2014 05:30:40 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <536cb51c3f348_6b2dde7308b1@nysa.notmuch> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 09.05.2014 12:59, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Matthieu Moy wrote: >> Felipe Contreras writes: >> >>> No chance of ever graduating. >> >> I see no relationship between the chance of graduating and the removal >> from contrib/. > > Read contrib/README. > >> If you want to remove mw-to-git from contrib, then a good starting point >> would be to explain why you want to do so in the commit message. > > The purpose of the contrib area is to either a) give visibility to > otherwise potentially ignored scripts b) serve a staging area for > features before moving into the core. > > This script doesn't match either of those. It doesn't belong in the > contrib/ area. > Maybe we could split it a little bit. Similar to the kernel there is a staging area. Ok there are some features, which are not yet promoted to mainline, some never will. But some things like examples/ could be moved out to another directory. (How about Documentation/historicEncounters/ ?) Also we could think about renaming contrib to staging then. However I don't think it's urgent.