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Contributed Software
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Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
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source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The
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intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
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even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
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and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
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faster.
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I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as
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my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
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owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help
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if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
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have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
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fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
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owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
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enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
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just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If
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you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
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first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
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should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
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This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
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lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
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drill.
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I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
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to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
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projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On
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the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
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and inactive ones from time to time.
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If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
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it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
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there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
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list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
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audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
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upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
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of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
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repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
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submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
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stuff there.
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-jc
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