Re: How to deal with current contents (was: An (unfinished) guide to the ac-archive)

[Guido Draheim]

Peter Simons schrieb:
> Guido Draheim writes:
>
>  > My current problem: the gnu ac-archive has deleted some macros, and
>  > I wonder if it is good resurrect them.
>
> If I may, I would like to extend that question to an even broader
> scope: We do have tons of macros in the archive right now (and we do
> have some that were deleted/renamed in the past). Many of them do
> clearly not live up to the standards we have in mind. How do we deal
> with this situation?

Keep them. They might be used somewhere, heavily. Contact the author
and inform him of the new policy - I am sure they'll listen. Discuss
renames and style changes, re-submit, make the old name "obsolete",
and let the ac-archive come to a clean state within the next twenty
months. When some author is unwilling, mark it obsolete anyway, and
throw it out some day - warning of the latter processing should make
every author to prick ears. :-)=)