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Re: Cleaning up "contrib/"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 14, 2025, 20:05 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Right, I know people use them. What I meant was that if we wanted to
> spin them to out-of-tree projects, we'd need somebody to volunteer to be
> the maintainer of those projects. If they stay in-tree we can be a bit
> looser (your "I don't want to be _the_ maintainer, but I can
> contribute").
>
> It does put more load on Junio, though. E.g., if there is a security
> problem the project has to deal with embargoed release engineering,
> whereas a separate project would do its own releases.

Well, but it certainly is not more than what I currently need to do; it does not make any difference whether it is housed in the contrib/ directory or in the tools/ directory.

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> Last time wincred had a security hole (in 2020), the phrase "unsafe and
> unmaintained" was thrown about on the security list, but we ultimately
> fixed at least the immediate issue. But I find its general matching
> strategy to be not very confidence-inspiring.
>
> Dscho (or anybody else familiar with Windows) may want to comment
> further.
Thanks for a redirect.
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Message 13 of 13 in “git svn clone failed”
  1. BERENDSEN ArnoudMay 2, 2025
  2. Johannes SchindelinMay 4, 2025
  3. Cleaning up "contrib/" (was: git svn clone failed)Patrick Steinhardt, May 5, 2025
  4. Johannes SchindelinMay 5, 2025
  5. Patrick SteinhardtMay 5, 2025
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2025
  7. Patrick SteinhardtMay 6, 2025
  8. Jeff KingMay 12, 2025
  9. brian m. carlsonMay 13, 2025
  10. Patrick SteinhardtMay 13, 2025
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2025
  12. Jeff KingMay 14, 2025
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2025

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