Re: Removing old notes from the source tree

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 09/01/2017 07:07 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 08/06/2017 12:15 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> There are several files in the top level of the source tree containing
>> old notes about bugs, standards conformance, etc.  These have, in
>> general, not been updated in at least five years.  The information in
>> them _may_ still be relevant, but it's clear that they are not being
>> looked at where they are.  To the extent it is still relevant, I think
>> the manual and/or the wiki are better homes.
>>
>> BUGS -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/OldNotes/Bugs
>> CONFORMANCE -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/OldNotes/Conformance
>> NAMESPACE -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/ReservedNamePatterns
>> WUR-REPORT -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/OldNotes/WarnUnusedResult
> ...
>> README.pretty-printers ->
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Debugging/Pretty_Printers
>> README.tunables -> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Tunables
> 
> There having been no objections, I deleted BUGS, CONFORMANCE, NAMESPACE,
> and WUR-REPORT, and I moved README.pretty-printers and README.tunables
> into the manual directory.  I did not create a changelog entry, which
> seems to be usual for this kind of file.

I have no objections to this, and if I'd noticed I would have applauded
the work. There are a lot of old files there that don't make any sense
today and if needed they can always be resurrected from source control.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.