Greg Anderson

Folks could .gitignore the dev files and run `drupal-scaffold` to get them in a dev environment, so this still seems useful, even if committing the scaffold files.

This looks great. Try having PluginTest and HandlerTest extend the same base class, and push duplicate code down there.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Oh, if I had to guess I'd say that the README is out of date, but I don't really remember the fine details of this project, the entirety of which...

I updated the README to advise that this project is deprecated.

Yes, drupal-composer/drupal-scaffold will not support Drupal 9 or Composer 2, so everyone will have to switch.

This does not answer all of your questions, but please see https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-project/pull/522

In short, we will want to deprecate drupal-composer/drupal-scaffold once the new component is in use in drupal-composer/drupal-project.

Conversion tools are planned. There is an issue for [converting non-Composer projects into Composer projects](https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3047468). There will also be a tool for updating from old to new Composer components, but...

The items inside of `initial` are only really intended for items that should be downloaded from some remote location. Currently, this is only from the repo identified by the `source`...