[MPlayer-dev-eng] [FFmpeg-devel] Please clean up incoming

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:00:34AM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> 
> Attila Kinali wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:51:34 +0200
> > Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> > 
> >> Please clean tell us which files should be kept and 
> >> which thrown away.
> >>
> >> I will not increase the size of the partition, although
> >> we have more than enough of diskspace, if so much junk
> >> is just left there to rot.
> > 
> > PS: I don't mind if we keep everything in there
> > and i have to increase the partition size,
> > as long as the files are properly sorted,
> > so that one can find the file he's looking for.
> 
> I'd prefer to keep everything, many of the files are referenced in 
> source and/or commits log to explain fixes and/or hacks, if you loose 
> the file, you loose the way to double check the test IMHO.

Those files should be sorted into the samples archive.  Precisely this
is the purpose of the samples archive.  Letting incoming grow to
infinity is not a solution.  If the devs forget to move files or forget
to get files moved, it's not the admin's fault.

Diego