Re: [PATCH v1 25/25] contrib: remove 'mw-to-git'

From: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
Date: May 9, 2014, 12:30 UTC
Message-ID: <536CCA71.8010300@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <536cb51c3f348_6b2dde7308b1@nysa.notmuch>

On 09.05.2014 12:59, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> No chance of ever graduating.
>>
>> I see no relationship between the chance of graduating and the removal
>> from contrib/.
> 
> Read contrib/README.
> 
>> If you want to remove mw-to-git from contrib, then a good starting point
>> would be to explain why you want to do so in the commit message.
> 
> The purpose of the contrib area is to either a) give visibility to
> otherwise potentially ignored scripts b) serve a staging area for
> features before moving into the core.
> 
> This script doesn't match either of those. It doesn't belong in the
> contrib/ area.
>

Maybe we could split it a little bit. Similar to the kernel there is a staging area. Ok there are some features, which are not yet promoted to mainline, some never will.

But some things like examples/ could be moved out to another directory. (How about Documentation/historicEncounters/ ?)

Also we could think about renaming contrib to staging then. However I don't think it's urgent.