[libvirt] [ocaml] reset and resync the libvirt-ocaml repository

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 05:13:23PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for reasons mostly lost in the history, after the libvirt-ocaml
> repository was converted to git, it was not used by its main author
> (Rich Jones); the development continued on Rich's git, at
>   http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-libvirt.git;a=summary
> 
> After a talk with Rich, we agreed that it was better to move the
> development back to libvirt.org, just like all the other bindings.
> There are two problems however:
> 
> 1) the first 38 commits have an bad author/committer date, and this is
>    also the reason why the existing libvirt-ocaml is not mirrored on
>    github
> 
> 2) the top 3 commits on libvirt-ocaml were not integrated back to
>    Rich's ocaml-libvirt, and maybe their content might not be totally
>    OK (I will let Rich comment more on this)
> 
> While rewriting history is bad,
> - most probably there are not many users of libvirt-ocaml around,
> - the repository itself is very small (< 500k),
> - in general it will better to have a working repository
> 
> So what I'm proposing is to replace the libvirt-ocaml repository with
> a fixed version of Rich's ocaml-libvirt, and directly on the git hosting
> side (i.e. not using force-push on the current one).  Rich has already
> commit access for libvirt, so there are no problems to keep his
> maintainer role on it.  Once done, we can notify users in this list
> about it.
> 
> What do you think? Is it an acceptable path forward?

I had a chat with Pino offline and I agree with this plan.

Rich.

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