Re: [PATCH 00/15] remote-mediawiki: various fixes to make tests pass

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2020, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqimccox61.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200916185732.GE33925@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> I am a little puzzled about what we want the future of contrib/mw-to-git
> to be. It sounds like there have been a few minor improvements in the
> external GitHub project (though clearly lacking a bunch of fixes you
> have here). Should we be pushing these fixes up to that version and then
> either:
>
>   - considering that project the upstream, and reimporting from them
>     once the fixes are merged there
>
>   - ejecting it from contrib/; it can live on as a separate project

In general the latter is preferrable.

If it is not well maintained in upstream, we can keep it in our contrib/ hierarchy forever, but given that nobody among us seems to be motivated and qualified enough to be its true maintainer, and no user seems to be contacting us about its bugs, it is just between letting it wither over there or in our contrib/, which does not make much of a difference, I would think.