Proposal: convert images repository to archiveย #152
Description
This is a proposal to mark this repository as archive.
Assessment
This repository seems to have served different purposes:
- Store the SVGs from which PNGs have been derived in different resolutions to then be added to actual bundles
- Explore existing icons for inspiration, reuse or adaptation
Since the first purpose became irrelevant with the support of SVGs within Eclipse/SWT, such that they have been added to the productive bundles, this now only serves as a storage. At the same time, the repository is not in sync with the productive bundles and it would require effort to restore and preserve sync.
There are other means to explore images (such as the image browser from PDE) already now. And in case someone is really interested in being able to explore the existing images (in the best in an up-to-date state), it might be easy to write some script / workflow that just clones the relevant repositories (from platform, jdt, m2e, mylyn), extracts the images out of them and structures them in any useful way.
In any case, requiring everyone adding a new SVG to a bundle to also add it here consistently and maybe even adding the PNG versions at 100% and 200% does not seem to be a good idea. Instead, we should have a single source of up-to-date information, which are the bundles the icons are used in.
And finally, the repository will all the existing images will remain just as an archive.
Proposal
- Add a note on where images can be found and explored now (in the actual bundles, explored via PDE image browser) in the repository's readme.
- Mark the repository as
archive.
Question
I invite everyone to share their opinion on the proposal. In case someone disagrees, I would encourage them to make a concrete proposal how to proceed with this repository, such as how to keep it up-to-date and, if not, which expected state to define for it.
References
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