[Python-Dev] Removing files from the repository

[Guido van Rossum]

That sounds a bit excessive. Is there a recent incident that inspired this
proposal?

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> After removing files from the repository they disappear from the source
> tree, and it is even hard to notice this if you don't use it regularly. It
> is hard to track the history of the removed file even if you know it exact
> path. If you know it only approximate this is harder.
>
> I think that any file removals from the repository should pass some
> PEP-like process. Declaring the intention with the rationale, taking a
> feedback, discussing, and finally documenting the removal. Perhaps it is
> worth to track all removals in a special file, so if later you will find
> that the removed file can be useful you could restore it instead of
> recreating its functionality from zero in the case if you even don't know
> that similar file existed.
>
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