From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>,
GIT Mailing-list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 04/25] contrib: remove 'buildsystems'
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 04:35:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <536ca144161a_39ea14ab31097@nysa.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761lfnwel.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
David Kastrup wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> >> Besides, you say "No activity since 2010" - this is not the case,
> >> bc380fc is from November 2013.
> >
> > You think changing the execution bit of a file is considered "activity"?
>
> For an indication of "this software has actual users", it definitely
> would count as such, yes. Why would someone change the executable bit
> if it did not impact his usage of the software?
Because that somebody spotted this while changing the executable bit of
other scripts, which is precisely what happened (or at least seems so
from the history).
> The idea of removing software from distribution is to get rid of stuff
> without a user base rather than punishing lazy developers.
No. There's tons of Git tools out there. Should we include them all in
contrib/?
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 0:58 [PATCH v1 00/25] contrib: cleanup Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 02/25] contrib: remove 'hg-to-git' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 6:44 ` Miklos Vajna
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 03/25] contrib: remove 'stats' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 04/25] contrib: remove 'buildsystems' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 7:53 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-05-09 8:14 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 8:33 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-05-09 8:48 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 9:10 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-05-09 9:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 10:02 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-05-09 10:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 11:35 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-05-09 9:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-09 9:35 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2014-05-09 9:44 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-09 10:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 11:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-09 18:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 05/25] contrib: remove 'convert-objects' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 06/25] contrib: remove 'diffall' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 15:12 ` Tim Henigan
2014-05-09 18:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-09 19:26 ` Tim Henigan
2014-05-09 20:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-09 20:16 ` Tim Henigan
[not found] ` <CAFouetj=30Wd_CDiXA0UqqKNdfJSv+C5mWbMJPOkEdqxr7k54w@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-09 15:20 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 07/25] contrib: remove 'git-jump' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 2:03 ` Jeff King
2014-05-09 2:12 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 15:20 ` Jeff King
2014-05-09 16:13 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 17:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 08/25] contrib: remove 'git-shell-commands' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 09/25] contrib: remove 'gitview' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 10/25] contrib: reomve 'thunderbird-patch-inline' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 11/25] contrib: remove 'workdir' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 12/25] contrib: remove 'vim' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 2:02 ` Jeff King
2014-05-09 2:23 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 13/25] contrib: remove 'svn-fe' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 14/25] contrib: remove 'rerere-train' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 15/25] contrib: remove 'remotes2config' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 16/25] contrib: remove 'persistent-https' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 17/25] contrib: remove 'git-resurrect' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 18/25] contrib: remove 'emacs' Felipe Contreras
[not found] ` <CAFcZeCqbF54-KjHU1R3pC6XgWi21KcpRGB7HcbfSGyvTScQU2A@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-09 8:29 ` Felipe Contreras
[not found] ` <CAFcZeCo5mCfnUN1uBiaZnD6DL6y8hPhK5MPts5raLCTGwJX9Gg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-09 8:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 14:50 ` Alexandre Julliard
2014-05-09 14:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 19/25] contrib: remove 'diff-highlight' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 1:51 ` Jeff King
2014-05-09 1:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 13:37 ` Stefan Beller
2014-05-09 14:16 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 17:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-09 17:45 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-09 18:21 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-09 18:40 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 20/25] contrib: remove 'contacts' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-10 1:59 ` brian m. carlson
2014-05-10 4:00 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 22/25] contrib: remove 'fast-import' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` [PATCH v1 24/25] contrib: remove 'hooks' Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 1:47 ` [PATCH v1 00/25] contrib: cleanup Martin Langhoff
[not found] ` <CACPiFCJnsu3qw59oK94sP1u0+KBDvne0ZpKS0LMGc_9ge+rJjA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-09 2:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 13:15 ` Stefan Beller
2014-05-09 15:22 ` Jeff King
2014-05-09 15:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 17:09 ` Martin Langhoff
2014-05-09 17:15 ` Felipe Contreras
[not found] ` <1399597116-1851-26-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
2014-05-09 10:46 ` [PATCH v1 25/25] contrib: remove 'mw-to-git' Matthieu Moy
2014-05-09 10:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 12:30 ` Stefan Beller
[not found] ` <1399597116-1851-24-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
2014-05-09 15:00 ` [PATCH v1 23/25] contrib: remove 'hooks/multimail' Michael Haggerty
2014-05-09 15:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-09 15:28 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-05-09 15:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 16:46 ` James Denholm
2014-05-09 19:56 ` [PATCH v1 00/25] contrib: cleanup Johannes Sixt
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