From: Sergio <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:23:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Removing unmaintained scripts
Message-ID: <loom.20120313T102017-876@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120312214139.GA11362@burratino>

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

> 
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> According to [1] (see the green line), it still has some users,
> or at least people who access the file now and then.   As long
> as the script works, why would we want to cause them trouble?
> 
> For comparison, here's the corresponding graph for people using
> GNU arch[2] and participating in the same survey.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
> 
> [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git-arch
>     http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=git-core
> [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=tla
>     http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tla
> 


Hi,

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.

Sergio