+1 for not shipping them. I like the idea of having additional test programs. If we require that programs include tests, we could increase the test diversity and coverage.
So I would add them to a separate folder in the main repository, use them for testing during builds, but not include them in the distro. 2014-06-27 11:46 GMT+02:00 Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org>: > Robert and Ufuks suggestion would imply that committers review the programs > nonetheless, so it should result in high quality. > > The only difference seems to be whether it is part of the core repo, or an > addons repo. > > The danger of an addons-repo is that it may get discarded eventually, or > that it is treated with much lower priority. >