On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 04:29:28 +0000 MyungJoo Ham <[email protected]> wrote:
what we do in enlightenment upstream is we literally rename "dead" repositories. we also mark them clearly in description: https://git.enlightenment.org/ look at "Legacy". we do this so code is available if someone wants to dig through it, but it: 1. is clear by description and/or PATH to git repo that its legacy (old/dead). 2. it will force good old build scripts to break - thus informing whoever runs such tools by way of their build breaking that things have moved/changed. so i agree that it'd be good to rename and change descriptions when a repository is abandoned. we should reduce the number of repos perhaps in the process. > Dear All Tizen Developers, > > > > When we access a git repo (via gitweb with review.tizen.org or > git-clone), it is hard to know whether > > the git is used or not. > > > > Determining the activation based on the recent commit date doesn't > work because some repositories > > are actively used by build system while not getting new commits. > > > > It is possible to determine by carefully looking at the data in > build.tizen.org or download.tizen.org. > > However, it is not that effective and it is easy to make a mistake. > > (Taking several minutes to (unreliably) find out that the git is > there but not used? It's seriously wrong.) > > > > So, wouldn't there be a nice mechanism to let developers (especially > new to that git repo or that part of Tizen) > > know that a specific git getting their attention is no more used? > (I'm occasionally getting comments on my commits > > from maintainers that those git are not used anymore...) > > > > Cheers, > > MyungJoo > > -- > > MyungJoo Ham (함명주), Ph.D. > > Developer eXperience Lab, S/W Platform Team, Software R&D Center > Samsung Electronics > Cell: +82-10-6714-2858 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev
