Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] Remove 'git archimport'

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] wrote:

Eric Wong wrote:

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Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] wrote:

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No updates since 2010, and no tests.

Who benefits from this removal?  Is this causing a maintenance
burden for Junio?

It is cruft that nobody uses and we are not even testing.

We do not know nobody uses it.  I have old GNU Arch projects I have not
looked at in a decade.  There is a small chance I may use archimport
again (whether for nostalgia or contractual/legal reasons).

Of course I know to extract archimport from history, but someone in
the future may not know the existence of it.

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Plus, foreign SCM tools should live out-of-tree anyway.

Even if so, there ought to be a transitionary period in case there are
any users.  We would need to warn potential users of its impending
removal in the documentation and at runtime.

All right, so you are OK with adding deprecation warnings whenever the
tool is run, and a note in the documentation?

No, I am not convinced existing foreign SCM tools should move
out-of-tree.  Perhaps something like the following would be helpful:

  Warning: Like GNU Arch, git-archimport is unmaintained.  Please
  contact us at git@vger.kernel.org in case you run into problems,
  want to help, or just want to tell us it still works.