On 09.05.2014 12:59, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Matthieu Moy wrote: >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> No chance of ever graduating. >> >> I see no relationship between the chance of graduating and the removal >> from contrib/. > > Read contrib/README. > >> If you want to remove mw-to-git from contrib, then a good starting point >> would be to explain why you want to do so in the commit message. > > The purpose of the contrib area is to either a) give visibility to > otherwise potentially ignored scripts b) serve a staging area for > features before moving into the core. > > This script doesn't match either of those. It doesn't belong in the > contrib/ area. > Maybe we could split it a little bit. Similar to the kernel there is a staging area. Ok there are some features, which are not yet promoted to mainline, some never will. But some things like examples/ could be moved out to another directory. (How about Documentation/historicEncounters/ ?) Also we could think about renaming contrib to staging then. However I don't think it's urgent. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html