On Sep 14 11:07, David Sastre wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:54:05AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > On Sep 13 10:33, John Morrison wrote: > > > It is with regrets that I give up the maintainership of the cygwin > > > base-files and base-passwd packages. > > > > > > I've been unable to find sufficient time to do these packages justice a > > > situation which is unlikely to improve at this time. > > > > > > The source for the packages is the package itself. I have a small set of > > > automations for building (replacing version numbers etc) which I will > > > happily give to the new maintainer, but I have not created a cygport > > > package for it. > > > > > > I am not going to unsubscribe from the lists nor stop answering questions. > > > > > > I've enjoyed the time I've spent on this project and wish it well. > > > > I'm sorry to read that. Thanks for the time and effort you invested > > into these packages. > > > > Since you're not mentioning "units", does that mean you keep up > > maintainership for this package? > > > > Other than that, is anybody willing to take over maintainership of > > base-passwd and/or base-files? While the base-passwd file is relatively > > uncritical, especially the base-files package needs some work, to pick > > up the stray bits of problems we collected over the time. > > > > Anybody willing to take over a few bash scripts? > > I'd like to do that. Is there a detailed list of things to correct in the
Cool, thank you! > base-files package? Or should I look for that info in the archives? This is only spreaded throughout the cygwin and cygwin-apps ML archives. There was also a recent discussion on cygwin-developers, see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2010-09/msg00007.html Other than that, I'm sure there are some who remember what's missing :} Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
