Re: [PATCH] Remove ciabot from contrib

Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>:

Note: I was *not* the original author of the ciabot scripts.  I was
their maintainer (baton passed to me by the original authors) when
the CIA service irrecoverably crashed, and did suggest they be
removed.  (It is however true that I had rewritten the scripts
pretty heavily, enough so to perhaps be considered a coauthor.)

Junio demurred based on some representations that a development team not including the CIA author had plans to revive the CIA service. I said "Wait and see, then" - having the ciabot stuff carried in git was doing me no harm, I was just doing what I thought was my duty by suggesting the cleanup.

That was almost exactly a year ago now. The CIA revival effort has since sunk without trace. In part, this is because I fielded a much simpler and properly decentralized replacement called "irker" which is now widely enough deployed to have suppressed the demand for CIA. Repository hook scripts for irker ship with the irker distribution.

I think enough time has passed that removal would be appropriate.