+1
Scott Henson
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Michael DeHaanSpeak for yourself ;)
<michael.dehaan@gmail.com> wrote:
> This should not be too controversial and no, I'm not talking about any
> Python features.
>
> Looking through the codebase there are various things I'd like to
> either clean up, or delete, to reduce confusion for people working on
> the app. Before you say, whoa, delete, we still have history in git,
> and many of these things are pretty old. This is basically about
> keeping the top level directories organized enough and making sure
> nothing gets subject to bitrot, so people don't waste time with things
> that don't work. I kind of view Cobbler as "largely complete", i.e.
> not radically evolving, and this is mostly about keeping the repo in
> shape.
I agree with all of the above, I don't think I've ever touched
> ** Candidates For Removal **
>
> * contrib/cloner -- I wrote this and have no idea what it does
> anymore, I can't answer any questions about it
> * cobbler4j -- this should be it's own repo as we won't be keeping
> Java code working, plus, plus no updates in a year and a half. 100%
> Fine if it lives elsewhere (like the spacewalk repo).
> * contrib/ruby bindings -- Like cobbler4j, lacks contributors,
> examples, testing, and recent commits.
> * build_backup -- not needed anymore, I'm pretty sure
> * shenson's cobbler_sync_master -- replicate should have replaced it completely
> * diagrams -- I don't actually run dia anymore and graphics are hard
> to keep up2date, more to text content in the Wiki
> * obsolete/* -- again, this is what version control is for
> * pres -- it's better to maintain content on the Wiki, where it might
> actually be kept up to date :)
> * rel-eng -- not saying it should go away as it's probably involved in
> pushing, but needs a README or something explaining how to use it.
> * fedora_epel_push -- not updated since F-12
>
> various scripts in tests (not apitests) that aren't useful anymore.
> Would really like to see apitests grow to have greater coverage, but
> these
> are not those things.
anything in those directories in the 3+ years I've contributed.
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