From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 07:11:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] Remove 'git archimport'
Message-ID: <536c7f9089b77_182dd0d31084@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <20140509055024.GB30674@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Eric Wong wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> > No updates since 2010, and no tests.
> 
> Who benefits from this removal?  Is this causing a maintenance
> burden for Junio?

It is cruft that nobody uses and we are not even testing.

> > Plus, foreign SCM tools should live out-of-tree anyway.
> 
> Even if so, there ought to be a transitionary period in case there are
> any users.  We would need to warn potential users of its impending
> removal in the documentation and at runtime.

All right, so you are OK with adding deprecation warnings whenever the
tool is run, and a note in the documentation?

For how many releases?

-- 
Felipe Contreras