Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> If Luke is volunteering to take over its maintainership, it would be >> appreciated by its users. It has been in the "abandonware" status >> for too long. > > I think I am volunteering. Wonderful, and thanks. > Elsewhere in the thread, you suggested that subtree be taken out of > git.git, and live as a standalone project. > > I'm not entirely opposed to that, but > > 1. I'm not sure how whoever picks it up (me) establishes their > git-subtree as the "real" subtree (get a blessing from Avery?). Avery is so distant a past, but a work like this series, while we still have it in contrib/ in my tree, will help build necessary trust in you by the Git user/developer community, and when that happens, it would be obvious to everybody that you would be the new owner of the tool. And when that happens while the tool is in the contrib/ in my tree, and you'd be an established trusted member of the development community by then, I do not mind if you take it and maintain out of tree, if you keep working on the tool still in contrib/, or if you polish it to the main porcelain status and take it out of contrib/ and make it part of the git-core proper. > On the other hand, I think that in the long-ish term git-subtree wants > to be rewritten in a better-suited language. My personal inclination > would be Go, but if I ever want it to graduate to git-core, it'd have > to be C, huh? If somebody is willing to do a rewrite and will maintain it for a long haul, I'd say that it would not necessarily have to be in C especially if it is not performance sensitive. As long as it is done in a widely available language, that is (which used to man Perl or Python, but my persoonal preference won't carry that much weight these days ;-) Then folks who really want it in C can rewrite the rewrite on their own after that. One advantage you may have if you choose to take it out of my tree and make it a standalone project is that you have more latitude on the future implementation technology, but we'd need to start from helping you earn the trust by convincing others that "subtree" would be in good hands with your volunteering ;-) Thanks.
