Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-07-15 Thread David Stacey
On 26/06/18 19:34, David Stacey wrote: Sadly, the time has come for me to step back from being a Cygwin package maintainer. Corinna has asked that I stay on the list for a while to help any prospective maintainer in adopting one or more of my packages, so I will remain subscribed to 'cygwin' an

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-28 Thread David Stacey
On 28/06/18 13:15, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2018-06-27 17:24, David Stacey wrote: All of these are effectively dead upstream: - 'words' is a dictionary from the Moby project. This doesn't exist anymore, and so the source file is pulled from a 2006 mirror on the Wayback Machine! I include a couple

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > I've been a Cygwin package maintainer for nearly six years, and I've > > learned a lot in my time here. Special thanks to Corinna for leading the > > programme, and to Yaakov for somehow managing to maintain a ridiculous > > number of packages. Cygwin has made a big difference to so many use

Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-28 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-06-27 17:24, David Stacey wrote: > On 27/06/18 23:09, SPC wrote: >> I have reviewed the list of packages maintained by David so far. I have >> identified three packages of simple maintenance at least in appearance: >> - words > All of these are effectively dead upstream: > - 'words' is a di

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-27 Thread David Stacey
On 27/06/18 23:09, SPC wrote: I have reviewed the list of packages maintained by David so far. I have identified three packages of simple maintenance at least in appearance: - mscgen - ninvaders - words All of these are effectively dead upstream: - The last release of 'mscgen' was in 2011. Th

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-27 Thread SPC
2018-06-27 12:14 GMT+02:00 Michael Wild : > > For me the following orphaned packages are of importance (not all of > them David's): > > * asciidoc > * doxygen > * gcovr > * python-paramiko > > If nobody else steps up, I can adopt one or the other. > > Michael > ​I have reviewed the list of packag

doxygen Notes (was: Re: Moving on from Cygwin)

2018-06-27 Thread David Stacey
On 27/06/18 11:14, Michael Wild wrote: For me the following orphaned packages are of importance (not all of them David's): * doxygen If nobody else steps up, I can adopt one or the other. Some notes on 'doxygen' that might help you (or someone else) maintain the package: doxygen is split i

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-27 Thread Michael Wild
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 26 17:26, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> On 2018-06-26 13:34, David Stacey wrote: >> > Sadly, the time has come for me to step back from being a Cygwin package >> > maintainer. I'm keen to take on a new project, and I need to free up >

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 17:26, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2018-06-26 13:34, David Stacey wrote: > > Sadly, the time has come for me to step back from being a Cygwin package > > maintainer. I'm keen to take on a new project, and I need to free up > > some time in what is already a fairly hectic life! This has m

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-26 Thread David Stacey
On 26/06/18 20:55, SPC wrote: 2018-06-26 20:34 GMT+02:00 David Stacey: So with immediate effect, all of my packages are available for adoption. First of all, good luck with your new projects.​ Thank you! About the adoption of some package(s) to maintain, I have more free time than previou

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-26 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2018-06-26 13:34, David Stacey wrote: Sadly, the time has come for me to step back from being a Cygwin package maintainer. I'm keen to take on a new project, and I need to free up some time in what is already a fairly hectic life! This has meant some difficult decisions about letting some th

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-26 Thread SPC
2018-06-26 22:28 GMT+02:00 Marco Atzeri : > Am 26.06.2018 um 21:55 schrieb SPC: > >> 2018-06-26 20:34 GMT+02:00 David Stacey : >> >> >> So with immediate effect, all of my packages are available for adoption. >>> >> > >> About the adoption of some package(s) to maintain, I have more free time >> t

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 26.06.2018 um 21:55 schrieb SPC: 2018-06-26 20:34 GMT+02:00 David Stacey : So with immediate effect, all of my packages are available for adoption. About the adoption of some package(s) to maintain, I have more free time than previously, so I could assume the maintenance of at least one

Re: Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-26 Thread SPC
2018-06-26 20:34 GMT+02:00 David Stacey : > So with immediate effect, all of my packages are available for adoption. > All are (more or less) up-to-date. Corinna has asked that I stay on the > list for a while to help any prospective maintainer in adopting one or more > of my packages, so I will

Moving on from Cygwin

2018-06-26 Thread David Stacey
Sadly, the time has come for me to step back from being a Cygwin package maintainer. I'm keen to take on a new project, and I need to free up some time in what is already a fairly hectic life! This has meant some difficult decisions about letting some things go in order to free up the time need