From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:29:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Removing unmaintained scripts
Message-ID: <87k42olugb.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120313T102017-876@post.gmane.org>

Sergio <sergio.callegari@gmail.com> writes:

> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> > 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?
>
> 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.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to add a test to ensure that
git-archimport doesn't suddenly break with nobody noticing for months.
Can you contribute a reasonable (small but representative) test repo?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch