2014-11-12 19:47 GMT+01:00 David Lang <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>
>  It's not the final shot, as I need to think about a couple of modules. For
>> example, imjournal is contributed, but now that RH-based systems so
>> heavily
>> depends on it, it may make sense to upgrade it to become a core modules.
>>
>
> I would say that the availablility of tests, documentation, how clean the
> code is, what the level of code churn is, etc should be what drives things
> down into the contrib directory, not just who the author of the code is.
>
>
I mostly agree, but would like to add "how well I do know a subsystem" as
another predicate. For example, no matter how well a module is, I cannot
add it to the core set if I am unable to maintain it. Things are may be
different if the author is a long-term contributor.

Rainer


> If the author sets up tests and documentation, the code is clean enough
> (and under the appropriate license), then I would seriously consider
> promoting it out of contrib to the main tree.
>
>
> David Lang
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