[savannah-help-public] [sr #109263] replace master branch

[Bob Proulx]

Follow-up Comment #3, sr #109263 (project administration):

You have put the Savannah admins into a difficult situation. Our task is to
curate the source code. To keep it safe from data corruption and catastrophe.
To keep it accessible to the community. To worry about security. We have
literally decades of source across a long list of projects that expect us to
keep their source safe. You have asked us to violate the rules of curation.
You want us to remove code that has already been committed.

Sometimes we break the rules because that is the best thing to do in the
situation. There are many cases where we will do this and that is okay. But
each and every time that we do so we must be ready to stand up to the
community and defend that action. We must know that is the right thing to do
enough to stand up to the community and face down anyone that challenges us
that what we did was the wrong thing because we helped information to be
lost.

Now it may be that the changes on the previous master branch are trivial and
therefore it isn't a great loss to discard them. But discarding them breaks
every downstream clone that is attached to it. Rewinding master is strongly
frowned upon. And if it was trivial then you would have simply rebased your
changes off of master and committed them. So usually in these request cases
the old changes are not trivial changes.

Please have some patience with this request. It is a holiday weekend. One of
us will squeeze some time and evaluate your request in detail and see what is
the best thing for us to do in this situation.


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