Examples might go to github wiki, for example
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 8:49 PM Tim Düsterhus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Willy,
>
> Am 14.06.19 um 18:50 schrieb Willy Tarreau:
> > Given that we're talking about one of our oldest files and that
> > approximately no changes to it were made in the last 16 years,
> > I'm having strong doubts about the fact that anyone uses it. I'm
> > pretty sure it has been superseded with better maintained failes
> > from the distros by now. Does anyone still use it and want me not
> > to delete it ? My fingers are itching around the enter key...
> >
>
> No objections from my side (and it can always be retrieved back from
> git), I'm replying, because I want to suggest to take a look at the
> other files in the folder as well:
>
> - auth.cfg : 10 years and IMO explained well in the
> configuration.txt
> - check{,.conf} : 12 years
> - debug* : 14 years
> - haproxy.init : 4 years
> - haproxy.vim : 12 years, apart from my clean-up commit from
> last month. Definitely needs to be updated, possibly with some automation.
> - init.haproxy : 14 years (why is there two 'init' files?!)
> - ssl.cfg : 4 years with the most recent commit adding a
> 'verify none' which is questionable.
> - stats_haproxy.sh : 12 years
> - transparent_proxy.cfg: Effectively 4 years
> - wurfl-example.cfg : Recent
>
> So if all the outdated files or files with questionable use are removed
> a fairly short list remains. The things that are useful (such as
> haproxy.vim) could be moved to contrib/ and the examples folder outright
> removed. As history has shown the examples tend to be neglected. Instead
> the configuration.txt should possibly expanded for more complex
> use-cases, because that one is actually kept recent.
>
> Best regards
> Tim Düsterhus
>
>
