From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] Remove 'git archimport' Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 04:20:40 -0500 Message-ID: <536c9de8f07ae_39ea14ab310f9@nysa.notmuch> References: <1399599203-13991-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1399599203-13991-2-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <20140509055024.GB30674@dcvr.yhbt.net> <536c7f9089b77_182dd0d31084@nysa.notmuch> <20140509081507.GA26494@dcvr.yhbt.net> <536c939781d8b_2bf0e952f08@nysa.notmuch> <20140509085937.GA29347@dcvr.yhbt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Martin Langhoff To: Eric Wong , Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 09 11:20:52 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 1Wigz5-0001FY-0c for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 09 May 2014 11:20:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756659AbaEIJUq (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2014 05:20:46 -0400 Received: from mail-yk0-f176.google.com ([209.85.160.176]:60101 "EHLO mail-yk0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754610AbaEIJUp (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2014 05:20:45 -0400 Received: by mail-yk0-f176.google.com with SMTP id q9so3205236ykb.7 for ; Fri, 09 May 2014 02:20:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to:references:subject :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=paUoyKGnE9tul/tq10MIOBWAmFuJK+LCvTOc3e5O0dg=; b=g3jiOHyVav7JAY5YE4rIzgpOOvQvlTllURBmbU8QSEuhwbJtgcn5WfDNEBsnOWtXUy SjnfgjUOpttE4W2U3BwQLittxhCP/yVFMPtu2dXleEJYGfURaWE9n2b0dqDCo3+xSGNq FoaVsP7E6lQf4kMBMM9Obdc8u6I60mm1NtLdUZ62HWr6WyEdA3C1up1ryqwANCuPix2P oxFLdBcda9wFp0Ze40+U5ANeHZUpQcc72FTkJ5FQmIertgkkYTyYgDxcyqbrvEy4gwUO 1mpu148GJ6+/m6TgOlZxgdOAa7RVl54ppBlo/rtETtng+XPytGohb0Ilke4G93NmjSlP bMvQ== X-Received: by 10.236.229.133 with SMTP id h5mr13531070yhq.64.1399627245022; Fri, 09 May 2014 02:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (189-211-224-40.static.axtel.net. [189.211.224.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r46sm5366461yhd.29.2014.05.09.02.20.42 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 09 May 2014 02:20:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140509085937.GA29347@dcvr.yhbt.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eric Wong wrote: > Felipe Contreras wrote: > > As a minimal token that anybody might possibly be using it, I would like > > to see it work at least once. Since you said you have arch repos, can > > you confirm that it does something? > > Those repos are in offline/offsite storage and I do not have time to > retrieve them. Then we have no reason to believe they still work, and therefore, no reason to believe anybody is using this. > I've forgotten how to use tla to get a public repo, even. No surprises there given how unfriendly tla is. > > Eric Wong wrote: > > > No, I am not convinced existing foreign SCM tools should move > > > out-of-tree. Perhaps something like the following would be helpful: > > > > Tell that to Junio. > > > > If tools like git-remote-hg with tests and active maintanance and many > > users cannot be in the core, why should 'git archimport' be? > > Perhaps it's easier to deal with a benign, unmaintained tool than > to deal with you as a maintainer? That is irrelevant to the bad quality of 'git archimport'. > > Would you at least be OK with a demotion to contrib/? > > I don't see the point of moving it around, even. So basically you think we should keep 'git archimport' forever in the core, even if nobody uses it ever. So much for compromises. I think it should be removed altogether. If somebody complains the were using the tool, it can be added to contrib/ as a temporary measure. -- Felipe Contreras