"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Jun 10 2021, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > > > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > > The multimail project is developed independently and has its own project > > page. Traditionally, we shipped a copy in contrib/. > > > However, such a copy is prone to become stale, and users are much better > > served to be directed to the actual project instead. > > Let's CC its maintainer / other people who've actively contributed to > it. I've taken the liberty to do that. Thanks. > It seems to me that the state is that we're on the 1.5.0 release, and > upstream hasn't cut a new release. Yes. In practice, I am no longer a user of git-multimail.py (my use of Git moved from some self-hosted repo on a server accessible through SSH to some more black-box hosting like GitLab where I can't use it anymore), and I receive very few pull-requests and issues, so the project is essentially stalled. Not dead, but probably just good enough so no real evolution happen these days. > The upstream maintainer(s) are active contributors to git, Actually, I used to, but it's been a while since I contributed to Git. I've been busy with other stuff, and I'm struggling to find time to come back. Michael used to be the maintainer, but completely left the project after I took it over. > so the risk of this becoming stale seems low. This part is still true: sending the patch to Git is part of my release checklist, I'm unlikely to forget. That said, the benefit of keeping a copy in git.git is debatable, and probably low. I have no objection in removing it, i.e. applying Dscho's patch. > Having written a system in the past that made use of git-multimail.py > (and sourced it from git.git's copy) I'd think a better direction would > be to keep this and modify githooks(5) to actively recommend it over the > older and less featureful post-receive-email script. I'm all for recommending it in githooks, but this can be done by pointing to GitHub's URL instead of a local path. Actually the sample script could look like # Fetch git-multimail.py from https://github.com/git-multimail/git-multimail/ # adapt and uncomment the following line: #exec /path/to/git_multimail.py Cheers, -- Matthieu Moy https://matthieu-moy.fr/
