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Re: ITP moratorium


Agreed 100%.

But it's also a shame that http://cygwin.com/ported.html
contains so many broken or outdated links. Can I go through it
and submit a diff ?

And maybe someone should make a cygwinfind.net,
cygwinpackages.net, or something outside Cywin to host such
packages.

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> We've had a flood of package ITPs and a missing package maintainer.
>
> I'm imposing a moratorium on ITPs for now.
>
> I think I'm beginning to detect the sign of breakage in the process and
> possibly am detecting the fact that we are overloading setup.exe.
>
> It is rather a shame that we have a package like coreutils going
> unclaimed while people are busily proposing other packages which would
> be of general utility to only a tiny percentage of cygwin users.
>
> Maybe it's time to sweep through the list again and see if we are
> missing any maintainers, too.  Corinna did you do this last time?

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