From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergio Subject: Re: Removing unmaintained scripts Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:23:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1331514446.3022.140.camel@deadeye> <20120312024948.GB4650@kroah.com> <20120312063027.GB8971@1wt.eu> <20120312064855.GB16820@burratino> <20120312085820.GA11569@1wt.eu> <20120312152004.GB9380@kroah.com> <7vfwddu60f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120312171257.GA25347@kroah.com> <7vzkblsnos.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120312214139.GA11362@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 13 10:24:05 2012 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 1S7Nxa-0007OI-Mt for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:24:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760159Ab2CMJX4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:23:56 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60622 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759982Ab2CMJXz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:23:55 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S7NxG-0007BG-Ff for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:23:52 +0100 Received: from i2-ve060.ingce.unibo.it ([137.204.107.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:23:42 +0100 Received: from sergio.callegari by i2-ve060.ingce.unibo.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:23:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 137.204.107.60 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder gmail.com> writes: > > Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > A'propos, there is git-archimport script, last modified (as an > > individual script) in 2007. Is anyone using GNU arch nowadays; > > isn't arch-fast-export better solution anyway? > > According to [1] (see the green line), it still has some users, > or at least people who access the file now and then. As long > as the script works, why would we want to cause them trouble? > > For comparison, here's the corresponding graph for people using > GNU arch[2] and participating in the same survey. > > Hope that helps, > Jonathan > > [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git-arch > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=git-core > [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=tla > http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tla > Hi, please do not remove the ability to convert arch/tla repos unless it is a real cost to maintain the scripts. There may be few people who still use arch, but there may be a lot of them who have arch repos of quiescent stuff that one day they may need to revitalize. Sergio