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On Sep 6, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Eli Collins wrote:
>=20
> IMO if the tools module only gets stuff like distcp that's maintained
> then it's not contrib, if it contains all the stuff from the current
> MR contrib then tools is just a re-labeling of contrib. Given that
> this proposal only covers moving distcp to tools it doesn't sound like
> contrib to me.

	At one point, everything in contrib was maintained.  So I guess =
the big question is: what is the gating criteria for something to get =
entry into tools?=