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

[Braden McDaniel]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 18:54, Peter Simons wrote:
> 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?

Incrementally.

I don't think it would be a good idea to dump everything in the holding
pen; there's no way they'd all get reviewed in a reasonable time.

But there should be an attempt to audit the existing macros. This can
occur gradually. Perhaps bugs or tasks could be created in the Savannah
management interface that would divide the tasks into managable chunks
that an individual could complete in a reasonable time. Issues
discovered with the macros could be brought up on this list and perhaps
the autoconf list for discussion.

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