Re: [PATCH 00/15] remote-mediawiki: various fixes to make tests pass

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I am a little puzzled about what we want the future of contrib/mw-to-git
to be. It sounds like there have been a few minor improvements in the
external GitHub project (though clearly lacking a bunch of fixes you
have here). Should we be pushing these fixes up to that version and then
either:

  - considering that project the upstream, and reimporting from them
    once the fixes are merged there

  - ejecting it from contrib/; it can live on as a separate project

In general the latter is preferrable.

If it is not well maintained in upstream, we can keep it in our
contrib/ hierarchy forever, but given that nobody among us seems to
be motivated and qualified enough to be its true maintainer, and no
user seems to be contacting us about its bugs, it is just between
letting it wither over there or in our contrib/, which does not make
much of a difference, I would think.