Re: A plea for volunteers (Fwd: CVS support at SourceForge ends Nov. 30)

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On Sunday, 08 October 2017 20:02:12 Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 08.10.2017 um 01:05 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> 
> > Some tags are missing, but that's easy to fix (I think I disabled that
> > because a removed a number of useless tags, but I'm no longer sure).
> 
> Using Eric S. Raymond's reposurgeon and cvs2svn to experiment with, I 
> found a further complication that's missing from that existing github 
> mirror: the "faq" module in our CVS repository.  This means we have two 
> modules in our repository, causing tools to actually generate the 
> "gnuplot" path component again, and later failing many of their 
> comparisons because of it.
> 
> E.g. reposurgeon's "make branchescompare" complains that none of the 
> branches or tags of the generated git repository have the 'faq' directory.
> 
> So: what are we to do with the "faq" module?

It's pretty horribly out of date, so dropping it altogether to be rewritten
at some later date is an attractive, and simple, option.

Keeping it in a separate module seems an unnecessary complication.
Whether we keep the current document or trash it and start over,
either way it could move to the docs directory.

	Ethan