Re: finding unsused scripts, add comment into scripts that are still used

Matías Bellone <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:32:02 -0300

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 6:14 PM Thomas Lange <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I like to find scripts in the webwml repo that are not used any more
> but were not removed from the git repo.
> Therefore I suggest to add a comment to those scripts, that are still
> used anyone like translators or by our cron jobs.
>
> I did this already for some script as you can see in
> git show 89df02f8989c7a72150aac9ac05801f487ed226e
>
> Please check the scripts that you are using and add the comment
> "# This script is still used in 2024"
>

In my experience, a better comment would be where and/or why the script is
used so that in 2030 anyone that reads the comment can know where to start
searching to verify if it is still being used.

Regards,
Toote