Re: [RFC] Move tools sources to the tools directory (was Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Fix the location of tools manuals)

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 14:47, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> The distinction of contrib/ vs tools/ is supposed to be more a
> reflection on the quality of the program.
>
> contrib/ should be considered demo-ware, no back compat guaranteed,
> may or may not work, no testing guaranteed, no man pages.

On this definition, why do we have any of it in our source tree?
Interesting but unmaintained side things can live quite happily
elsewhere (other peoples' git forks, blog posts, whatever).
If we care about a bit of code enough to keep it in our source
tree we ought to care about it enough to properly document
and test it and give it a suitable place to live.

thanks
-- PMM