On 5/6/25 22:34, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes:
The "mw-to-git" directory contains tools for accessing MediaWiki via
Git. The scripts are essentially unmaintained in Git: despite a couple
of global cleanups, the last changes were a couple of security-related
issues part of 9a8606465e8 (remote-mediawiki: use "sh" to eliminate
unquoted commands, 2020-09-21) and its parents. We don't ever run any of
the tests so it is more likely than not that many of the tests have been
bitrotting, like e.g. documented in f8ab018dafc (remote-mediawiki tests:
annotate failing tests, 2020-09-21).
Furthermore, the code has been spun out into a separate project at [2].
Remove the directory in favor of this new home.
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>> [2]: https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki
AFAICT, there was no activity at all on this project, neither in
contrib/ nor on GitHub, for years. I'm not using it anymore and lack
motivation to maintain/contribute to it, and no one really stepped in to
take over.
OK, the new home also lacks activity since Mar 2022, but it
still is certainly a much better home than having it here.
Perhaps it's a grave more than a home, but that's indeed a better place
for the project to rest.
And I doubt this removal needs to wait for Git 3.0 boundary;
Right, actually IIRC we already discussed its removal and it could have
been removed long ago already.
Anyway, many thanks to this list for the help building up this project
when we created it, loooong ago!
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Matthieu Moy
