Re: [PATCH 06/10] contrib: remove "mw-to-git"

From: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Date: May 7, 2025, 09:11 UTC
Message-ID: <108f297a-b415-4742-80e4-51ea02af18e9@matthieu-moy.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr011h41x.fsf@gitster.g>

On 5/6/25 22:34, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> 
>> The "mw-to-git" directory contains tools for accessing MediaWiki via
>> Git. The scripts are essentially unmaintained in Git: despite a couple
>> of global cleanups, the last changes were a couple of security-related
>> issues part of 9a8606465e8 (remote-mediawiki: use "sh" to eliminate
>> unquoted commands, 2020-09-21) and its parents. We don't ever run any of
>> the tests so it is more likely than not that many of the tests have been
>> bitrotting, like e.g. documented in f8ab018dafc (remote-mediawiki tests:
>> annotate failing tests, 2020-09-21).
>>
>> Furthermore, the code has been spun out into a separate project at [2].
>> Remove the directory in favor of this new home.

 >>
 >> [2]: https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki

AFAICT, there was no activity at all on this project, neither in contrib/ nor on GitHub, for years. I'm not using it anymore and lack motivation to maintain/contribute to it, and no one really stepped in to take over.

> OK, the new home also lacks activity since Mar 2022, but it
> still is certainly a much better home than having it here.

Perhaps it's a grave more than a home, but that's indeed a better place for the project to rest.

> And I doubt this removal needs to wait for Git 3.0 boundary;

Right, actually IIRC we already discussed its removal and it could have been removed long ago already.

Anyway, many thanks to this list for the help building up this project when we created it, loooong ago!

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Matthieu Moy